Don’t Compost These Plants! 🥔

There are certain plants from the vegetable garden that you probably shouldn't put in your compost pile. Potatoes are one of them.
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[@FloraM44]

And then there's me who finds potato plants growing in the compost bin lol

[@Ed19601]

Ditto. I throw everything in the compost. Never ever had diseased potatoes

[@carlsutherland3730]

​​​@@Ed19601I personally like the idea of putting it in the compost bin for a different reason. I think you should innoculate the compost bin with good microbes that fight nightshade diseases to build more good microbes in your compost. I also believe you should bring in high microbial soils from your natural region and mix with your compost for the same reason. It is very commonly recommended not to put nightshades in the compost bin though because nightshades have diseases that can exist for decades in the soil. Potatoes are a nightshade, so are peppers, eggplants, tomatillos, tobacco, horse nettle, and poison hemlock any disease of one easily overwinters on the other.

[@Ed19601]

@@carlsutherland3730 indeed. Also most potato disease is soil borne, so if you get disease, ut is typically in yr soil already

[@dallen3000]

​@@Ed19601new gardener her. Im confused. So should you, or should you not put them in the compost?

[@Ed19601]

@@dallen3000 well there is no law about it. I put everything in my compost, including. Never had a diseased potato plant. What i might be hesitant to put in the compost is a tomatoplant fully blackened by blight, but I did not have those in years

[@samgraham6628]

I know somebody who decomposes the tomato plants on the spot. Chops them up where they grew and plants there again next year. His stuff looks wonderful. Organic gardener with homemade fertilizers.

[@Golden_SnowFlake]

You say potato, this guy says Tomato. That's all the song I remember.

[@samgraham6628]

@@Golden_SnowFlake 😂

[@helloxyz]

And then the lawnmower clippings go on the compost heap

[@jamesmiller210]

Potato. Say it, POTATO.

[@WS-by5cl]

“What's taters, precious? What's taters, eh?”

[@sarahdavis-bennett8043]

Thanks so much. This is my first year growing potatoes and I didn’t know that!!!!

[@lindakangas1045]

I've missed you!

[@sinkintostillness]

It's the tiny tubers which may still be attached which can spread the blight. You could cut of the stem and compost that as the blight only survives on living matter. Same with tomatoes.

[@jannettebailey6487]

Thank you for the info. I just planted my 1st time Potatoes.

[@g0ldful]

Time to go take the decomposing potato plants out of the bed. Lol

[@ThatOneGuy_Kick]

If it's for the reason you said then when you mow wouldn't it spread it to other parts of you yard and garden?

[@bodyofhope]

Yes. But looks like his vegetable garden grows in raised beds, so it wouldn't effect his vegetables if it's only in his grass. The diseases he's talking about effect vegetables.

[@classicrocklover5615]

Chopping and scattering it into the lawn also might make it easier for the sun to kill any existing disease

[@jamesdagmond]

Never had this be an issue. But I do throw any obviously diseased plants into the trash instead of the compost.

[@christineelsey3104]

Thanks for the heads up!!

[@foxisthebest]

👍 same with tomato plants

[@stickshaker101]

I know this is barely related, but i once put some McDonald's fries in my worm bin and it grew roots!

[@jewellink6900]

Thank you

[@keithbroh5730]

I have only had my compost going for maybe 3 months at this point, I’ve been throwing just about every single thing that’s green in there and everything seems to be breaking down just fine. I do live in Dallas and we’ve have record breaking days of heat these last few weeks. I think the 108° of outside air combined with the million degrees that the top of my bin, which is black plastic gets to. Actually breaks down that stuff pretty well

[@heavymetalbassist5]

The key to composting anything you want is to size up to real composting in piles over a cubic yard. Bins are for kids and city folk

[@matthewnewberry9843]

I wish I knew that a week ago. I think my swampy Florida heat can handle it

[@Langevinhomestead]

I don't know how u guys deal with heat. I'm from Maine. Bring on the cold

[@math.and.physics]

​@@Langevinhomesteaddude my whole family is from maine and quebec. I have lived in florida my whole life and my dna does not like it one bit...

[@amandamarie5337]

There was a perfect time in the video where are you the little 🍅 lined up with a plan perfectly and I thought you guys left a bright yellow tomato

[@jaredchastain606]

Wouldn't wanna expose your potatoes to things they should be immune to

[@jujubee7351]

Great tip !

[@mauricedavis2905]

Lol give me all that 🤣 I compost everything but I will say labs are the key to making great compost out of almost all vegetation. Labs are the key ingredient to bokashi😉

[@JasmineBrownOttawa]

I love this and their wonderful accents. Say it with me: po-TAY-toes hahaha!

[@patrickhenry9521]

I clean my ears with toothpaste.

[@user-xk8yg3ti8y]

Chickens turn them into fertilizer, given to vermiculter on the compost pile last stage

[@MarkO-im7lc]

My plants die in the bed before harvest. Not much left of them.

[@millionairementality_]

Excellent information Thank You!

[@brayanmedina2323]

No compost your potatoes and pumpkins 🦠🛑💀🚫❌💯🥔🎃📢📣

[@fridomsnowbird6678]

I don't compost tomato plants either.

[@musomaster9027]

Do it in summer with heaps of grass clippings and pine chip too - 200 Litres - gets very hot

[@annettealrand9736]

I didn’t know that thank you for sharing that with us

[@fishingdocp6476]

I have never had a reason to pull up green tater plants… now I’m wondering if I should have been pulling them up? My ADD MAKES IT INCREDIBLY HARD to let potato & peanut plants do their thing!!

[@wilecatrexy]

He looks like the window punch guy. Haha

[@georgewaynewilcoxjr2102]

Same with tomatoes

[@mrswiggles4790]

Thanks for that information. What about okra plants? I really need to know.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I think composting okra plants is fine, although they might take a while to break down because they're so woody.

[@user-oz3hs9nh4z]

We got good potatoes out of our old compost piles. I think old is why.

[@300zxster]

The temp of the compose pile will kill all fungal or diseases. It should not be a problem to compose potato plants

[@csexton07]

Let em dry out some and then put them in the compost pile... removes alot of the diseases.

[@kariw.160]

Definitely burn it if possible on a not so windy day. The fungus spores are capable of flying in the wind.

[@maconbacon8215]

Is there a reason you do not feed the tater plants to the chickens?

[@arnoldmmbb]

Potatoes and tomatoes have a high concentration of solanine, so they are not very good for animals

[@mrvalhalla6577]

They're toxic and like most nightshades you don't wanna feed them to animals. I won't even give them to my pig as a just in case

[@KingOfShenanigan]

​@@mrvalhalla6577thanks

[@carinadouah1951]

Tater? Is it some kind of flower?

[@karthikdevanahalli]

@@arnoldmmbb what is a tater plant?

[@stevekettelson7368]

Asparagus is another. Any ferns that you let go need to be burned or thrown away because of pests.

[@nicoletobincairns]

Yep. Wire worm doesn't always die in the compost either

[@greenboyatgafarms2250]

we dig taters with a Middle Buster plow behind a tractor then Harvest all the taters out of the heel that I made with a bed healer Implement that I made after harvesting the taters we always disc The Vines back into the dirt

[@ja5onl6]

Or you could throw them into a barrel of water and make some jadam liquid fertilizer. #gardenlikeaviking

[@infiniteadam7352]

I mow up most of my waist like that, and occasionally till in the area I do that in, starting to get some rich soil in that spot.

[@south7410]

True dat

[@Darkfyre755]

Id only worry about this if the potato plants already had a disease... Otherwise theyll be great compost

[@courtneywilburn9286]

what about burning them, then adding the ashes to the compost? im new to gardening and composting, so i like these videos also google helps lol

[@LazyDogFarm]

That should work.

[@denyceferro]

Love your garden bens! What size are they?

[@LazyDogFarm]

We have several different sizes. Here's where we got them: ollegardens.com/?ref=8gpQRg15c39_Js

[@mccartneystuart]

Mine go in the compost no problems. It all turns into compost.

[@jessabijay4160]

oh my God.. if ever i want to hire an agriculturist and a landscaper..

[@calvinwaligora8312]

Burn the Potato plants in a Burn barrel, than add the ash to the compost pile.

[@briankepner7569]

I actually thought you were going to tell me that because of the chemicals in a potato plant meaning the plant itself isn't edible and possibly dangerous or poisonous to your compost heap that's why I didn't put them in.

[@JustSumGuy]

If the plants have the spores so does your soil thats why rotating started.

[@whyyeswhat]

You can make liquid fertilizer np out of them

[@Christopher-cr7pw]

If you grind them up into small pieces then the insects and microbs will eat them quickly

[@daleval2182]

So i chop mold up in my lawn ,

[@johnregan8796]

Could you compost your taters if it gets down to 0°F? Could that kill the spores?

[@stonedsasquatch]

So chopping and broadcasting the spores instead of composting?

[@garretreed9709]

Why was he telling?!

[@DaveE99]

So make woodash or biochar with them

[@rosebayer114]

Would that apply to tomato plants as well,or is it okay if they don't look diseased?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yes.

[@AlleyCat-1]

​@@LazyDogFarmyes to which of their questions? 🤔 tomato & potato plant's are in the same family, so wouldn't tomato plant's be as difficult to compost for the same reasons?🤔😊

[@aimeesgardens]

I'm assuming a tatar plant is a potato plant 😂 I'm going to start saying it that way 😁 too cute 😂

[@LazyDogFarm]

You got it!

[@DES.REVER.DESIGNS]

*tater... not tatar.. idk what a tatar is

[@davidw4970]

Isn’t difficult. 1m x 1m. Closed sides. Moisture. Even mix of N & C (green-brown). Turn as little as once. Mine always goes to 70-75 Celsius for couple weeks, kills spores and seeds. Then comes down to 45-55 for next three months. Turned once into finishing bay. Slowly drops to 30-40 Celsius as moisture and final break down happens.

[@raesasteadywalker]

Give 'em to the hens! This is the first video I've seen of yours. I don't even know if you have any😃

[@LazyDogFarm]

We have a chicken tractor that we use to graze our garden plots when we plant cover crops in them.

[@raesasteadywalker]

@@LazyDogFarm nice!

[@jeffamerican5628]

I burn my compost pile regularly

[@egay86292]

"tater." what the hail?

[@BroScro]

took me three times of them repeating it- they're saying POTATO plants. tater plants.

[@hollynelson543]

HeY Trav😊

[@williamburns9731]

Marto plants pumpkin citrus etc 😂😂

[@Slanderbot]

Sun dry > mulch > compost. Enjoy life! :D

[@agert6416]

Pretty much all nightshade varieties are dangerous to compost. Tomato plants too!

[@oldkingcrow777]

If your compost is good enough the bennies should have no problem taking out the baddies

[@NickKat1981]

What other garden plants do you not compost or till into the garden soil?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, watermelon to name a few.

[@lindaparshall9276]

HOT BEDS 160*Ferinhite hands off composting

[@WeatherNut27]

So not good for compost but can stay in lawn.

[@maconbacon8215]

Can you feed the tater plants to your worm bin?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I guess I could.

[@_JohnRedcorn_]

But it doesn’t hurt or spread those diseases when you mulch it up and blast it all over the place with a mower?

[@gregoryjohnson9318]

Um that's false information everything is good compost, potatoes are one of the best things you can add to your compost

[@crazysquirrel9425]

Get an old clothes dryer that still works. Toss in that stuff, set for high heat and 1 hour. Let 'er rip! Everything will be sterile after that then compost away!

[@Assa-lh5jf]

Do you compost the grass?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I don't because we don't bag our grass. Our zero turn shreds it.

[@clarelove3738]

That is so not true. You can even compost blighted plants. But not something like Blackleg. Don't generalise.

[@Daryajun]

And where does the chopped grass go???🤔🤔😏

[@richardhayman4868]

Hmmmmmmm...wife, asking rhetorical question...

[@michaelboyce7079]

What do people who can actually pronounce "potato" plants do?

[@usausa8839]

I give em to the chickens. They eat em

[@tnpermaculture2130]

It isn't compost if you dont achieve 165 degrees.

[@51hilman]

Tater plant equals potato not tomato, right?

[@rebeccashomespun604]

Pumpkins

[@Murph999]

Is he saying Tater as in potatoes, or tomato plants? I only speak Canadian, eh bie?

[@articmars1]

Compost needs to be 180° for at least a few day before you kill off everything.

[@bobbun9630]

You're not trying to kill bacterial endospores here. 160F is about as hot as you can hope to get compost, but at those temperatures anything that causes disease in potatoes is likely to be killed within hours, perhaps only minutes. If you can get good heating for a few days, much lower temperatures will work. The real challenge is getting good heating through the entire pile.

[@DejaBanshee]

Are they bad for your chickens too? Why not let the ladies have em? Or did I miss that you don't have chickens anymore?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I could let the chickens have them, but the chickens are usually sitting on one of our garden plots.

[@zane4utwo]

Why don't those fungi get into the grass?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Different pests and diseases have different hosts. There are fungi that like grass and don't like veggie plants.

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Tara’s 😅

[@PROVOLQNE]

the hell is a tater plant

[@repentandturnfromsin]

Potato plant = tater plant Tomato plant = mater plant 😊

[@SPMcMillian]

What is a “tater plant”?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Tater = Potato

[@fanaticforager6610]

🐾 ✨

[@glennhassig6668]

Tater?

[@silasfrisenette9226]

You're red like a lobster!!! Wear some suncscreen 🙈

[@kirkjohnson4569]

Is he saying potato

[@maconbacon8215]

Yes. potato plants=tater plants