Make Compost in ONLY 18 Days | Fast, HOT Composting

[@regor8274]

Well done. No excessive verbage.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I try to keep it on topic. I was never a fan of videos that get sidetracked

[@4quall]

Also I expect you to flip that pile on camera every single time! Thats what we have come to expect from our favorite Gardening/Homesteading KZbinr

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I started to realize it was getting very repetitive 😂

[@123WorryFreeGardening]

Nice and quick. Thank you!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Thanks!

[@heatherjolly8389]

It's a great workout too!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

It's also oddly satisfying feeling the heat and seeing the smoke, feeling successful

[@poodledaddles1091]

Thanks!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

@@poodledaddles1091 thank you!

[@christinefuller3168]

Great information! Thank you so much!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Thanks!

[@paulet3682]

I always collect my grass clippings for the first cut of the year. It cleans up leaves and small sticks I didn't pick up. I was going to start a compost pile, then I realized that some of the clippings were from the grass that borders my lawn on both sides. As well, we have a substantial ditch that drains quite a number of homes west of us. The problem is that most of the neighbors have commercial lawn treatments done multiple times per year. So I have great grass clippings where all the treated lawns drain, and my minimal clippings from my untreated weedy lawn. I only need compost for growing veggies. Must I save only my clippings, from areas not reached by drainage from treated lawns? I don't want to poison us.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I would avoid any areas that could have drift or drain from treated areas. Lawn stuff does not need to be safe for food

[@OutoftheWoods0623]

Interesting

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

All the time I spent composting and one Geoff Lawton video changed everything. Refining the processes we use to build our gardens speeds things up and provides us more time to focus on other projects

[@4quall]

So I have been stockpiling greens and browns along with all our house hold veggies/fruit wastes. That being said I have them all sitting on top of each other. Never turned it once . It's in semi lidded box about 4ft high, 6ft long 3ft wide. That has no bottom and a top made from old pallet. I have just been leaving sit for a few years adding to it and ignoring it. So after all that do you think I just fucked Up? I haven't used any I just keep adding to it. It gets my grass that I don't leave in the yard. all branches, autumn leaves , Turkey bones or chicken, etc we have all the worms and microbes all throughout the pile and get mushrooms popping out after heavy rains. I'm hoping I am sitting on a pile of great future soil

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Some of my best compost came from cold composting. Just putting stuff in a pile as I get it. No heat, just worms and bugs breaking it down. Takes longer but everything breaks down eventually

[@4quall]

I used to add charred wood remnants and ash from my fire pit monthly, however someone visiting us had the bright idea to burn old painted fence planks and used gasoline on top of that so now my ash source needs to be summered over probably dropping sand over it this fall. Probably paranoid but I'm not trying to find out what chemicals the plants would absorb in that soil. Oh also ACP 😂

[@4quall]

Dude all my hoses are sh!+! Please someone do suggest a reasonably priced hose that can last more than a year without issues

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

@@4quall I love ash.. but not that kind

[@4quall]

@@FastGardeningMichigan meh it's a place to dump it and the Spring tails move in straight away which breaks it all down that much faster. I'm real good at being lazy 😎

[@kelleclark]

So, size DOES matter...(sorry, I couldn't help myself!) Thanks for the info, I'm starting a new pile tomorrow!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

My small pile with grass clippings is 175 degrees so it doesn't matter if it's something loaded with nitrogen!

[@kelleclark]

@@FastGardeningMichigan Is it that hot from the grass clippings or the chicken manure? I have a limited amount of grass clippings...any sub ideas?

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

@@kelleclark I get the most heat from grass clippings. I'd argue they cause more heat than any other nitrogen component besides bloodmeal

[@kelleclark]

@@FastGardeningMichigan Thanks!

[@GLG_YT]

@@FastGardeningMichigan175!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought it was like max 160!!! That’s hot!!!

[@roberthousedorfii1743]

this stuff isn't really suitable for use as mix-in compost. this is really only good for on-the-top. With all that unfinished stuff in it, it will USE nitrogen.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I'd never mix in compost. That would mean I'm destroying the soil.