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Oh thank you for sharing tips and ideas as well.
Ahahahaha the little knock on a door sketch 😂😂😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Great tips. I've been doing this on my allotment this year. Lots of courgettes, small potatoes, rotten tomatoes, and split squashs, beetroot leaves have all gone on the compost.
I have 3 acres of "lawn" and I let most of it go to wildflowers/tall grass this year, and recently mowed it with a walk-behind string trimmer and collected the trimmings, probably several tons of material. I'm hoping that makes my garden (about 1500 sq ft) self-sufficient on compost, at least in terms of being able to apply a good supplement regularly to the beds.
This is my first year as an allotment owner and one of the first things i did was to get my composting sorted. Filling raised beds isn't cheap and if i can supply 90% of my soil every year ( and hopefully better quality then shop sold ) it's going to go a long way towards saving money and growing quality veg / fruit. Thx for all the great vids .
The only reason Im giving you flack about chucking the cukies is that mine didn't come in this year! 😭
Huw, for all the years i've been following your videos, you have consistently grown into a a man of Nature.
You follow the basic underlying principle that 'In Nature, there's no Waste or Wealth';
One organism's waste is wealth (food, resource) for another. Hats off to you and many blessings in your endeavour.
May you continue to enrich us with your farming & general experience and hope that your community grows into a global conscience that works for self-sufficiency & Nature-friendly farming
Hope that everyone who watches you experiences happiness from their gardening successes, one day at a time, one season at a time.
thz good value in knowledge
Nice little in-joke there for the Welsh speakers, with "Tom" going into the compost
You need to have some rabbits (meat) and Nubian goats (meat and dairy) – and they will "compost" all that extra veg waste – and give you quicker and easier compost manure that can be more-readily spread across the food forest landscape. Better having productive options (meat and dairy) than just recycling at the bottom level with compost … and no manure or extra meat and dairy in the recycling movements.
Huw, as always your insights are appreciated. I have intentionally spent time this year increasing our compost with perfectly acceptable food and trimmings from the flower garden so that I have an 'abundance' (you can never have enough) of compost as we are trying to double our garden size for 2024. Thank you for continuing to grow in your understanding of gardening and for allowing us to learn and grow from you knowledge! I'm always excited and honored to hear 'Professor Richards' teach a good lesson.
I feed alot of my waste to my chickens they love them! And also the wildlife
Great video to get people thinking. In eastern Washington state right now we are battling thousands of acres of wildfires. Myself and many others are helping to foster displaced farm animals. A big hobby of mine this past week has been sourcing out “waste” food that I’ve been able to deliver to pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, etc that are being kept safe until they can return home. I’ve got about 200lbs of questionable corn on the cob and 15 gallons of wormy apples in the back of my truck right now to be delivered.
People happily compost many edible parts of plants – carrot tops, beetroot leaves etc. If you can compost the top why not the bottom? My neighbours don't eat courgettes, how selfish is that?
Would you consider doing some videos on anaerobic food composting methods like Bokashi and the best ways to apply it after has been fermented? Also can you comment on Black Soldier fly larvae that can get in and the pros and cons of that happening? Additionally, evidently there are other ways to use the grains used in the fermenting process. I'm wondering how they can be used as amendments.
Putting things from the garden directly is my top secret… Glad to see I am not the only wacky gardener with picky chickens and rabbits that give their food willingly to the worms.😊
Couldn't agree more Huw. I happily add tasteless beans and unhomeable squash to my compost. Circle of life😊
I don't think of any food I compost as waste, I think of it as surplus. Surplus to me and my freezer, my family and my neighbours. So once I've fed all of us I feed my compost.🙂