compost made at 4 week intervals comparison

[@sowgroweat6987]

Nothing better than a Composting video

[@thevegplot]

@@sowgroweat6987 thanks bud my favourite subject and pastime 😁👍

[@nickthegardener.1120]

Sorry I was late to the party 😊👌👍😁

[@TOSHROSEWELL]

Informative and plenty humour,fast becoming my favourite Chanel,this one brightened up my Xmas for sure,best wishes 🌹🌹

[@thevegplot]

@@TOSHROSEWELL cheers mate brightened up my morning your comment. 👍

[@the_green_anna]

Hahaha! That was so funny! - They grew up here and know the neighborhood...😂 You got me laughing too! 😄 Much enjoy your composting videos! I also use the neighborhood worms. No rats, but voles like to spend winters in my bins. Wouldn't mind so much if they didn't collect loads and loads of acorns in there. 😁 Cheers!

[@thevegplot]

@@the_green_anna hi I can't help but laugh every time I see them in the bins, they really just go where they want. Built them a nice home filled it with food and bedding checked them 3 weeks later almost every one moved house. Amazing really I see them all over the inside of the polytunnel roof at night I guess they go up there to eat the algae on the plastic. Have a great Christmas. 😁

[@MrBucidart]

Loz, a great vid that shows what hard work and a person love of the garden can do.

[@thevegplot]

@@MrBucidart cheers Joe yea growing plants has been with me for as long as I can remember. All the best. 👍

[@thereseboogades8498]

Wow, look at all those worms! 😊

[@thevegplot]

@@thereseboogades8498 can never have enough worms 😁

[@nickthegardener.1120]

Excellent video and information, im going to check my pile when I get back from my mums, probably tomorrow. I think I will be able to turn some of the more decomposed material onto the newer material so I can get to the finished compost underneath.😁👍👌🙏

[@thevegplot]

@@nickthegardener.1120 Hey Nick yea it's a constant shuffle for me to get Access to the older stuff, seem to have developed a system now though, it involves 3 turns but the compost is so much better for it. Cheers mate. 👍

[@ausfoodgarden]

Those sneaky worms, they just do their own thing. At least you caught some of the escapees. 🤣 I've only got a suburban block and use a compost tumbler and 4 "dalek" bins hidden behind bushes. I still manage to get useable compost in 4-6 months though. Great video mate. Cheers!

[@thevegplot]

@@ausfoodgarden 😁 rascals mate, I've housed the ringleaders in tower mk 3 in the tunnel. I'm thinking 3 days before they build a glider and bugger off back. 😂 Cheers.

[@Ginger_McElfresh_Art]

​@thevegplot you have me cracking up!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@dnawormcastings]

Great video and heathy looking earth worms 🇳🇿🪱

[@thevegplot]

@@dnawormcastings thanks mate, these guys prefer to be free range grazing, escape artists. 😁👍

[@dnavehiclewraps]

I'm so glad I found your videos. Thanks for so much help with my lottie. Merry Xmas pal

[@thevegplot]

@@dnavehiclewraps all the best mate, yes it doesn't have to be hard work growing food it's actually really simple. Feed the soil correctly then plant and harvest that's literally all I do, understanding the soil food web is vital and I hope to show you this. Cheers 👍

[@davidberry2216]

Love love love it, very interesting and informative and funny, merry Christmas to you

[@thevegplot]

@@davidberry2216 all the best David, they crack up those worms 😁

[@kevinmuldoon4551]

Another really informative video mate. I look forward to many more. I find myself making more and more of my own compost these days. My new allotment neighbour is a retired builder, so he can soursce quite a bit of kingspan insulation . So the next project for us is a home made hot composter, which will more or less copy your own prototype. Thanks again for the vid. Looking forward to the upcoming rye grass episode.

[@thevegplot]

@@kevinmuldoon4551 thanks Kevin, once you get the knack of keeping the hot bin fed the right materials you will love the end product. I have a hot bin vid coming out in the next few days just what I'm filling with at the moment because my plot has nothing to give yet. Cheers

[@markshaw5835]

Love a compost video, I need to get better at composting

[@thevegplot]

@@markshaw5835 so important mark when there is enough organic matter in the soil you get the right microbe fungal balance that veg needs to grow healthy you can also make a huge dent in soil borne plant diseases cheers 👍

[@adamdaykin4052]

Rats in the compost bin are the worst. I started turning mine a few weeks ago and one jumped out at me. Gave me quite a shock. I’ve had my hot composter for a while now but it never really gets that hot. It must be the mix of materials I put in. I’ll get the hang of it next year. Great video, very informative

[@thevegplot]

@@adamdaykin4052 horrible things mate, I think the secret to the hot bins is starting off with loads of greens, grass clippings mixed in with differing veg tops about a foot deep and keep adding similar until the heat starts which can be anything from 24 hours to a week. Once it's starts then do green and brown with slightly more green than brown that retains more moisture which the microbes like. Cheers

[@adamdaykin4052]

@ I struggle for grass clippings as most of our site has marestail growing through the path. I’m one of the few plots without any and I don’t want to add any into my compost. I might ask my neighbours at home to save theirs for me so I can get a better supply.

[@thevegplot]

@adamdaykin4052 I can compost mares tail no problem mate it never survives the bin in fact I've never had anything survive it including docks bindweed and couch grass. I take lots of other peoples weed including roots but I'm looking to take less now because of all the bits of plastic they put in the bags. Cheers.

[@thereseboogades8498]

Oh my gosh; I would have a scream on that - a rat jumping at me from the compost! Whew!

[@nickthegardener.1120]

Do you have European night crawlers? The cocoon looked big and yellow. They do like to escape 😂, glad you found them 👍😁

[@thevegplot]

No idea mate they just arrived in my first hot bin on the plot 3 yrs ago, I do know the plot earthworms are the size of grass snakes 😁

[@normasommerville2603]

Ha ha you are hilarious....I know how exciting compost bins can be and can appreciate your excitement with all this army at work for you.....your strategy is amazing.... and yes it's like moving your troops round to where they are most beneficial......oh what fun we have...people don't know what they're missing 😅😅😅😅😅

[@thevegplot]

too Right Norma once we understand soil life we become their guardians they being the best growers on earth 👍

[@GARDENER42]

I've the same problem with rats of late - sods are burrowing in underneath by expanding field vole tunnels then chewing up the Antinox liner. Put bait down but I'll also set up with the air rifle & NV scope. All those eliminated go in the middle of my most active compost bay & never seen again....

[@thevegplot]

@@GARDENER42 I sold my NV scope a few years ago could do with it now, on trail cam though it's 3 - 5am sort of time they are active, I tried countless traps but they ignore them. My mate 3 plots away has got really good at trapping them though going to follow his method shortly. Need to get on top of it before spring they bloody eat everything cheers👍

[@nickthegardener.1120]

You could bait the worms out in a container, let them come to you rather than searching for them.😁👍

[@thevegplot]

@@nickthegardener.1120 good idea mate, I don't really have a sort of worm farm composting set up, the worms in storage are really there to add to the hot bin compost when I turn it into the storage bins to get them going a bit faster, it's why they make me laugh cos they bugger off on their own to where they want to go. Still we should know you can't beat nature at it's own game 😁👍

[@Agui007]

Hi Loz, a quick question, what's the name of your old channel please? I like your first hotbin. 😉

[@thevegplot]

@Agui007 hi mate it's Loz harrop the new bins I'm about to build on here will be along the same lines but work much better. cheers.

[@Agui007]

​@@thevegplot Hi Loz, thank you very much mate! I'm going for a vertical pallet tester which will be about three feet ² 👍🏼😉

[@thevegplot]

@Agui007 nice one, Bear in mind that hotbin compost is quicker and can be used sooner but the longer you leave the worms to do their work in bulk that becomes pure gold for the soil and plants. Needing so much compost over the last couple of years I've not had the luxury of letting it stand, all change this year mate. 👍

[@Agui007]

@thevegplot Thanks Loz, I'll definitely keep that in mind 👍🏼 Short term composting works great via the hot bin definitely. I do have a "Hotbin" though I find their size a bit too small and a hybrid like your's is more promising.

[@GARDENER42]

I don't have a lot of growing area - maybe 100m² in total for beds, greenhouse & polytunnel but those plus potato tubs means I get through at least 3.5m² of 'finished' compost a year & that takes some doing. No idea what I'll do when I lose the clippings from 300m² of lawns after next year, as that has been about half my 'green' input' for the past 6 years.

[@thevegplot]

@@GARDENER42 yea it's tough mate although you could 50/50 mix old compost with new beginning of year and that would do just as well, it's more about the soil life than the actual soil, the microbes need a little organic matter each year to make all the food for the plants, carbon is the biggest part of all plants that comes from the carbon or compost the microbes work on during the season. It's complex to get your head around initially look at it this way. Plant spuds in two buckets one pure sand, one same and compost mix, the first grows then dies, the other continues to grow, it's growth is limited to how much plant food the microbes can make from the compost, but I would think way less than 50 % compost is all they would need. 👍

[@rubiccube8953]

I never make up special worm bins . I just cultivate worms on the top of a compost bin when it’s maturing. But the worms do move around and find the place they like.Feed a fox or cat to keep control of the rats.

[@thevegplot]

They sure do go where they want, the estate behind us has a gamekeeper so there are no predators for the rats sadly.

[@justynaqra9402]

I have watched couple of your videos and I must say you have great content on your channel, can I just suggest to change the intro, at least first couple of seconds, it's very bizarre to watch, sorry ang good lucj with the channel

[@thevegplot]

@@justynaqra9402 hi there and thanks, yes I see your point, it's a simulated video of the microbial soil life attaching to plants roots to form the partnership with the plants. Cheers.

[@gor4988]

Tell your escape committee that a fishing trip is the next step for those who are caught AWOL. Truth is worms know what worms like, if you build it they will come.

[@thevegplot]

😂 I'll put that to them mate. I only started collecting them last year as I spread the compost with the idea of putting them into the next batch as it came ready for them, it seems like they decide when that is. 😁

[@THEBOOT504CTC]

Thank you for sharing and time #TheBoot504 🫡

[@thevegplot]

Thanks theboot all the best. 👍

[@THEBOOT504CTC]

@thevegplot it's good to see young people growing food I find it amazing keep it up brudda 🫡