My complete guide to making compost at home!
0:00 How to use this masterclass
0:37 Composting Myths Before Starting
9:35 Making Cold Compost
17:54 Bulking Ingredients for Making Compost
24:58 The Best Composting Plant
35:52 Composting in Small Spaces
41:23 Multi-Bin Compost Setup
46:47 Reducing Compost Needs
1:15:03 Compost Stratgy
2:22:06 Bonus Hot Bed Composting
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You have perfect timing.
Good morning from NW New Jersey 👋 🌞
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Thanks Huw we use 3 compost darleks and we leave around 9 months always beautiful with red wriggles in it ❤
Do you have experience with the method from Herwig Pommeresche to feed the plants with a smoothie made from plant remainings?
Thank you for the comprehensive information about this subject!
if it lives or dies it goes on my compost heap. I chuck it all in and leave it at least a year. I take off the top third and then chuck that on my new heap and then empty the bottom two thirds out and its usually pretty good compost any big bits or stick I might throw back in. I still buy compost and even some of that gets chucked on the heap, leaves crap paper cardboard etc all good. I just wish I had more.
Thank you for making chapters! I can come back and actually absorb each section and listen at 1x instead of 2x.
Homemade compost and compost soup are great for plants; it's free, and it is part of the gardening experience itself. I always make my own compost; even when I lived in an apartment and only had a balcony garden for several years, I made it using scrap vegetables from local restaurants and leaf litter from the street sweepers; my plants love it!
Thank you 💚
Shredding/chopping the ingredients beforehand and mixing them well with soil/mature compost/manure will speed up the process significantly.
Thank you, I love your style and your easy methods. Makes gardening really easy 😅❤
An hour and a half on composting.? I'll put my phone on silent.
Two movies in a week woaw. We're getting fed in more ways than one
Thank you Huw for this compilation video! Great go to to refesh the memory! Blessings on your growing season sir! 🙏💚🌿
I’ve had an allotment for about 3 years now and despite composting everything I can get my hands on I’m a long way from being able to supply the entire plot. This led me to covering the whole plot in several inches of wood chip despite my families concerns and the results have been great!
I’ve hoarded my vermicompost and normal compost for my seedling and potted fruit mixes and it’s made such a difference.
I see far more worms and other critters under the wood chip than I do in my early beds that had tons of mixed compost so I really hear what you’re saying about using it as a precision tool 🌱
Listening from north wales while at last potting up some brassicas 😊
Please look out for slow worms! I get them breeding in my heap so delve into it very carefully.
This was an amazing amount of info. I love it. Thank you so much for all the hard work behind putting this together for all of us.
amazing good information given
Great extensive info there! I have two questions, one related. I have a small sack full of very daggy wool that was packing for plants. Rather than compost it I wonder if it would be more beneficial to bury in small pieces as a slow release fertiliser near plant roots.
Secondly as well as comfrey (Bocking), I bought some lemon balm this year (nostalgic scent of my childhood!), and I wonder if it has any particular benefits a s a compost or mulch. I'm particularly wondering if the scent of it as a mulch would deter some pests, I can't find much about it though.
Was that a rat running down the path and into a bed?!?
It gave me great joy watching you jump on the compost like a trampoline!!! 😂 Huge fan of all the great information and inspiration for improving our gardens.
During this last winter, “Rowland Rat(s)” have been “turning” my compost bin contents from the bottom. My fresh bin keeps getting lower and the “empty” bin is nearly half full of compost, albeit a bit more woody than I would normally like. Never ever happened in the last 40 + years!
Yess! Better then any movie🎉 thank you and greetings from Germany
17:54 Are those rose canes arching over the compost bins? If so, they're pretty, but do you find they get in the way?
That was a great watch/rewatch. Thank you.
Is it just me, but I look foward to the compost making/result probably more than I do the actual veg element of gardening?
I'm very lucky in that I get all my neighbours' amazon cardboard and one is a garden landscaper so I get plenty of grass clippings too.
Last spring I "sourced" three wheelie bins (240L each) that I turned into compost bins. Two of them are ready and the contents look amazing!
Today a neighbour brought me their brown bin. It was full to the brim and weighed a blooming ton.
At great expense, they'd COMPLETELY replaced all the potting soil etc in their large flower tubs, baskets and troughs!!!???
They just wanted a wee refresh they said… 😮
Well, once sorted through, that'll make a welcome addition to my "garden crumble".
Thanks again.
I plant courgettes & squash in the bay of compost left over after mulching my beds in spring.
Despite using the 'additive' method of making compost, I still see temperatures above 60°C for at least 10 days in my active bay for material added from mid march to October, which kills most weed seeds.
A single turn of a full bay into the empty one usually brings everything back up to that temperature again.
I have the occasional rat burrowing in my bays but they don't last long & subsequently become part of the mix…
I mix my grass clippings 50/50 with shredded brown cardboard which stops the slimy smelly mess.
I'm self sufficient in mulching compost & this year have made my own seed & potting compost, consisting of a third each last year's potato tub compost, my year old worm compost & coir/moss peat & to that I add either vermiculite or perlite, plus BF&B as desired.