Why Would You Compost Like THIS???? NOOOOOO!!!!!

WHAT? YOU HAVE A CONCRETE SLAB BENEATH YOUR COMPOST?
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We've had quite a few questions about our concrete block three-bin compost pile system, and today we'll put the biggest one to rest.
Composting on a slab is quite possible. You don't need to compost on the ground to make compost! Yes, you may get more worms in the pile if you're right on the ground; however, you will also get tree roots, especially if you're composting over a longer period of time. After a few months, roots get into compost and can really eat up your hard work!
We have practiced composting in bins, composting on the ground, composting on slabs, composting in trenches, composting in barrels, composting in worm bins... you name it, we've either tried it or have studied it. This large compost bin system is made for producing lots of compost for our plant nursery and gardens, so we need to make sure it's easy to use, easy to keep safe from animals, and can be turned with a tractor and loaded and unloaded with ease. I've shared lots of compost ideas over the years, and this is just another one you can take or leave if you like.
Composting on a slab works just fine, and the worms and fungi and bacteria will happily show up on their own. Thank you for watching!

[@davidthegood]

Quite a few people asked why we would compost on a slab. Today I share the reasons, and we talk more about this epic composting setup. Here's the link to Compost Everything: amzn.to/3uyxnlm David The Good Gardening Tee-shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/the-survival-gardener Thanks for watching! -DTG

[@aok2727]

It’s terrific this set up will help you make some serious compost. Ultimately, a choice to make one’s waste work for you. I have only 2 bins made from rabbit wire and t posts. My Catalpa roots have not gone up to it yet but it isn’t the best location. The compost I take from it is terrific and works for me. I do love to throw worms in after it has completed its thermophyllic cycle. Fun fun fun

[@fanaticforager6610]

Indeed opportunism is KING 👑 ✨✅ Thanks 🙏🏼 for reminding me to set ergonomic collection bins for my local baristas ♨️🙏🏼🦘🪽 9:55

[@b_uppy]

I plant comfrey to catch compost leachate and then can add it directly to the garden or back to the compost pile...

[@davidthegood]

That is a great idea@@b_uppy

[@b_uppy]

@@davidthegood Thank you. Personally I am trying not to be envious of your nice composting station. Very nice set up. It will assist the hunters-of-vermin as the vermin will be prevented from burrowing into the pile from underneath.

[@mikhailkalashnikov4599]

I found out by accident that what you're saying is 100% spot on. Out of convenience, I started my compost pile on top of an old concrete covered cistern years ago. When I dig compost out of it I dig from the bottom, it's rich, dark, and full of worms. Volunteers grow out of it all the time and they're always much larger and more fruitfull than the plants we start from seed.

[@prubroughton1864]

We bought a dilapidated house and I had the job of cleaning out the guttering. I accessed the gutters by sitting on the roof. Not only was it full of urotted leaves from overhanging trees it was absolutely full of garden worms which was a great surprise 😊😊😊

[@eklectiktoni]

I already knew the answer to why you had the concrete before the video started. I've had many a compost pile stolen by greedy trees and their feeder roots.

[@Chet_Thornbushel]

We had our first compost bin under a very large maple tree in our chicken run. I think it was there for maybe a year and a half and then transitioned to keeping one nearer the garden. Now 2 1/2 years later you can still see where it was because of the mound of maple tree roots that grew up into it 😆

[@meanqkie2240]

Staying with my late spouse’s elderly father far from home so he doesn’t have to stay in rest home for now. Started a Compost pile(with his permission) in his backyard where he used to garden a decade ago. Looked up pecan leaves to make sure they aren’t allelopathic like hickory, adding eggshell, orange peel, coffee grounds. Threw hailscreen over it and a partial cattle panel to keep varmints out and wind from scattering the leaves. Lots more have fallen since I got here. Going to start radishes and a few herbs on his southerly front porch in the spent flower pots. Thanks for your inspiration!

[@hughbrackett343]

I don't do that moving from one bin to the next stuff. I fill up one bin, then start on the next. I stir things up when I feel like it, which is rarely. By the time bin three is full, the stuff in bin one is ready to use. Anything that hasn't broken down enough goes in the previous bin.

[@slaplapdog]

I build 4 pallet compost beds right next to my fruit trees, and grow annuals in them. The compost from the chickens is richer and goes into planting holes. I'm making vinegar in an aerated vessel and anaerobic liquid compost in buckets. I collect rotted plant matter from our concrete driveway and add it to a fence line. All ways to compost are on the table.

[@elijahsanders3547]

We don't have much space, but I've been composting in plastic bags with holes poked in the bottom, and planting a few things in a few pots and bags. Made a small trellis out of sticks and strings. You can be planting (and maybe composting) something, wherever you are. For our son's food, we always blend up whatever we're eating in a cheap food processor, and whatever's left over, I mix with water and pour around the base of a tomatoe plant and pumkin vine :) Also been collecting fallen leafs and flowers from the parking lot for compost.

[@jonathandunnam4810]

I have literally have found earthworms on my roof under leaves the accumulated there. Just build it and they will come...

[@mgguygardening]

Love the rain gutter comparison, you're spot on with that. Source: I'm lazy at cleaing out my gutters lol. Regardless, you are right!

[@haleya9526]

Wooooah, I hardly recognized you without the beard. Looking snazzy DTG!

[@spearsinspines]

I compost on concrete have for over a decade, it's killer good compost. depends on the ingredients.

[@GardeningWarrior]

lol..This is amusing to me. I compost in 3 35 gallon trash bins, 5 5 gallon buckets and 3 14 gallon storage totes all on a 3rd floor balcony. I did purchase 2 small containers of worms from the Walmart 4 years ago and now I have 1000's all in every single container inside and outside of my tiny 2 bedroom apartment. I vermicompost in place both inside and outside of my house. It can be done and guess what- I have NO ROOTS.

[@davidthegood]

That is hilarious. NO ROOTS! Way to look on the bright side!

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

I found this out the hard way. It was AMAZING how happy those tree roots were....

[@Iloveorganicgardening]

Give a thumbs up! David, you look young without your beard😂

[@MeanOldLady]

I remember cleaning out someone's gutters of 10+ years of neglect & I managed to get 6 full garbage bags of the stuff & had the hubby haul it back down to our place, hours away, to put in our compost pile. The stuff was absolutely amazing.

[@D71219ONE]

I like to compost wherever my next garden bed will be. My garden is always expanding, and I improve the soil in that new garden spot. My wife isn’t always a fan though. 😅

[@timhoward7486]

I've composted in piles, wire bins, old plastic dumpsters the city gave out, buried it, and most often now just sling the contents of the bucket across one of the beds I'm not using. Within a few days most can't be seen and it all breaks down into the soil eventually.

[@zd4v1d]

So that's why my compost pile is so hard to dig into. I thought that the roots were already there and I just picked a bad place. I foresee a lot of thinking, and digging and moving in my future. Thank you.

[@lupine566]

This was excellent timing. There are a ton of cinder blocks at the school where I work that I wanted to set up a compost area with. I saw the video where yours was being put together and that it wasn't directly on the dirt, and I started questioning the location I had wanted to set it up at. It's something I'm going to start on in the next few weeks and this gives me more things to consider. Thank you!

[@davidthegood]

You bet - I hope it's useful.

[@1timothydillon]

I've been composting where my garage use to be for about a dozen years. On top of the cement floor, and against a four foot retaining wall. I've never sat around to see if the worms make it in on their own, but anytime I'm digging in the yard, and I end up digging one up, I always carry it over to the compost pile. If the birds are going to eat them, they're going to have to work for them. I'm not going to leave them just laying around.

[@davidthegood]

That is awesome. You are the worm rescuer!

[@JunkyardGardener]

Really is a slick compost "bay" system. 👍

[@danfay4860]

I have found worms in my gutters and wondered how the worm knew to climb up there?!Happy Turkey day to you and yours

[@that_auntceleste5848]

I watch plenty of videos with growing and composting systems i won't build or use. From those i absorb *underlying principles* -- how nature works -- and then i go outside and put that principles to work with the space, time, skill set, and labor i have available. The result is amazing food. It tastes delicious and i know it is high in nutrients because of what i learn from you and many others about soil biology.

[@raydel5732]

David , May God grant you and your family a blessed Thanksgiving to honor Him. --Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ USDA

[@davidthegood]

Thank you - you too

[@nedweeks6964]

I like your compost bins, they're really big!

[@trishgreydanus7004]

I compost almost everything in the backyard but unbelievably, i got into trouble with the garbage police from our municipal government because I was not putting out my green bin every week. They put a notice on my door and followed up for the next two weeks. Boy was i steamed!!!! I am part of the solution not part of the problem. You can't even use the town's compost for anything except mulch as it is 80 per cent wood chips that are slightly decomposed.

[@davidthegood]

That is ridiculous

[@BiLuOma]

Is there such thing as a garbage police? We, my sis and I, don't even create enough trash to set our can out every week, only about once a month, and there is never any organic matter that wouldn't go into my own compost.

[@FloridaGirl-]

Totally crazy

[@trishgreydanus7004]

I am tempted to leave the green bin at the end of the driveway with a token pine cone in it.

[@jigiona2185]

Wow, all that money you're saving on beard oil let you get a really nice compost structure 😉. My wife and I love your content, keep up the amazing work.😸🤟

[@vansgardens2304]

I dig it, every time I turn my piles I fight tree roots. Look out for the purity spiral folks, they’re relentless. 😂

[@kelleclark]

I compost in an old truck topper flipped over...drilled plenty of holes and use one side/flip to the other! Works great and is full of worms by adding a few shovels of garden soil that contains worm eggs...obviously! Parked it right under a large maple tree and NO roots!

[@davidthegood]

That is a great idea.

[@doomguy584]

Old plastic bed liners work good too

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

I really like your compost system. If I had the resources for that I'd do that too. Yeah, roots are my nemesis... they eat up your compost.

[@michelleh.7010]

Hahaha, the title got me worried! Should've known you were being silly. This is how I compost.

[@carolmayer9789]

Love your laid back attitude about gardening, David! Thank you and enjoy your Thanksgiving ❤

[@ss-kz9ee]

True true. I composted near bamboo. The roots grew up in it. Probably sucked everything out of it to. Great explaining this system. I suppose a cheaper would be laying roof tin down.

[@melanieallen3655]

I compost several different ways & different spots in my suburban backyard..Live that I have less waste & creating beautiful compost.

[@upnorthhomestead6822]

We compost directly in the chicken run. Mulched leaves are added to the run in the fall as well. They turn it daily and fertilize it as well. Twice annually we till and remove the finished soil and store for use in late fall and early the next spring.

[@Constitutionapologist]

And it looks fantastic!

[@dirtneck4754]

Great video and advice as always! Something that is bothering me and maybe you'll address it sometime (or have before) is the compost machines such as Lomi that are getting popular in the good ole consumerism-based, possession-driven USA. Now people think they need a $500 machine to compost for them!? What kind of cyberpunk dystopia is this!?

[@davidthegood]

Oh, yes... I have seen those. I saw one the other day where a service was having people MAIL their kitchen scraps to a composting location!!! I mean... for goodness' sakes...

[@smas3256]

@@davidthegood Why not? Doctors give their patients a box to poop into that gets mailed back to see if they have worms. lol

[@davidthegood]

They're not claiming it's "good for the environment," though! @@smas3256

[@mio.giardino]

I love the system of making compost, it makes sense, and you’re not digging into native soil, attempting to recover your compost. The only thing that’s throwing me off in this video is no fountain. 😂 ⛲️

[@davidthegood]

I had to edit it on my wife's phone, which has no fountain stock footage on it. ;)

[@AuntNutmeg]

​@davidthegood Well THAT has to be fixed, obviously. 😂

[@chriseverest4380]

If I was a worm I'd try and sneak in there across that concrete. I'm sure as it fills the worms, fungi and all will get in there and party!❤

[@mollytrap]

I don’t have enough enemies to make that much compost.

[@randyman8984]

David, you are so right about the tree roots, they ate almost all of my compost 2 yrs ago.. I now have thick landscape fabric(15 yr stuff) on the bottom and it is working really good. Also get one of those big augers on a concrete drill mixer(DeWalt) and it's great at digging holes for plants and it's awesome for mixing compost piles. I do have to be careful not hit my landscape fabric on the bottom and put a hole in it. You wouldn't have that problem. I do love your set up,. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@Mark_Nadams]

We compost on the back corner of our property that is against a wooded area on a slope. I've always used a simple pile method right on the ground and always had problems with roots from the sumac, maples, and oak trees. Now I'm setting it up for a better system. The new system will have three sections. Two sections on top for fresh material and then first turn, both will have their bottom lined with metal so it will all drain into one "gutter". I plan to pitch the bottom such that it drains the top two areas into a bucket to use the leachate from the pile for fertilizer. The lower area is for usable ready to go compost. I do not plan on lining that bottom with metal because that will be used quite quickly.

[@lovecatspiracy]

New book title: Complicate Everything

[@zmblion]

I agree with you ive had my compost 100ft or more from the nearest tree and have found roots all in it. When i rebuild mine i will at least line it with brick or block or something. I've found worms in a gutter that wasn't cleaned for years. I think this is a great system

[@davidthegood]

That is amazing.

[@Fleshbits1]

David is a rebel, making a 9:55 video instead of following KZbin's 10 minute rule.

[@davidthegood]

#sigmalife

[@kimp2678]

I absolutely am envious of your compost bin. We bought two acres in Tennessee, and when we get there, I want to build something, but on a smaller scale. We live in a town home right now with a very small piece of property out back. So now I am using an Aldi's rotating compost bin for the stuff that's in progress. A seventeen gallon cat litter bucket with holes drilled in it, for my working compost that will be moved to my rotating bin when that's ready. And another 17 gallon cat litter bucket to store my prepared compost in. It works and on a small scale that's all I need.

[@koicaine1230]

I actually had to buy Worms because they don't live in Beach Sand. And over time, as I have tried building up some soil and grown a few plants that lived, we now have a small but growing population of them. I always put worm castings and a couple of worms in my seed starter and so the worms feed the seedlings that don't die and automatically go in the garden once the plant is big enough and that's where our worms came from. I still have my worm bin and worms for starting.

[@LC-hf3rk]

I have found earthworms in my gutters in the composting leaf mold!

[@SonderSurreal]

Best garden beds I have are essentially this built on a useless part of my driveway, originally filled by using them as compost bins

[@k.p.1139]

I actually DO have room for a smaller version of your compost area. I stopped composting because of the tree issue. There is nothing more aggravating than building a pile for over a year, to finally be ready to use it, and to find the spider web of millions of tree roots. Even worse, to find they had sucked every scrap of nutrition out of the pile, and basically you have 5 CY's of fill. 😏😏 OH, and then the Johnson grass that took over another pile. Chopped and chopped and chopped and that stuff got a SUPER charge to spread throughout my yard. My question is this. Can I use one bay as a burn pile ( tree limbs, etc.) and then add the burnt ashes to the compost bay? It sure would free up a WHOLE lot of mess for me if that will work. Thanks, David.

[@sixheadedgoblin]

I buried cinder blocks underneath my compost bins because of roots. Not tree roots - that part of my property has a ton of bind weed. Six years in with those bins now and I've yet to have any real trouble with the bind weed getting into my compost. There's been a weak vine here and there that likely came from seed, but no intrusion of the roots into the pile. There are definitely reasons to exclude the wider soil from your compost pile.

[@robinmarie5180]

I learned that with oaks here In 9b. Happy 😊 Thanksgiving David and Family.

[@sparkysoutdoors6240]

My first thought….what an awesome setup. Would collecting the runoff by adding a drain tile to the front be worth it?

[@QueenNerdoftheNerdHerd]

We have 2 Live Oak trees over our house and 2 concrete slab porches in the back of our house and the leaves they drop on those porches are a bounty of black gold on and around them from the worms, leaf litter and such. It's my favorite p[ace to collect from. I use it to get my compost piles really going or in a pinch to top dress or transplant. Our home was built in 1967 and I imagine the trees are much older. Great advice!

[@ganggreen9012]

Not a compost bin, but a similar issue. I have a medium size back yard with a very large maple tree right in the center. A few years ago I put in three raised bed gardens, by this spring they were totally root bound by the tree.

[@jenbear8652]

Awwww! How frustrating!

[@bowtielife]

First time I've seen your compost bins. Your completely surrounded by nasty root trees... If you have roots now you're in real trouble! 🤣😅 Thats pretty awesome! I only have a pallet bin system but have no rooting trees invading!

[@racepics]

Your three compost bins are bigger than my entire garden space 😂 However, as you stated, we do what we can with what we have. I do ok 🙂

[@TheRealHonestInquiry]

Great video, surely this info will save a lot of people the hassle of losing their batch to roots. I already learned the hard way thanks to a Camphor tree; now a single layer of pallet wood is at the bottom which will hopefully last the next year or two I'll be here. BTW you probably already know but for those that don't, dead bamboo and palm fronds are excellent sources of silica to add to your compost. Silica has been proven to increase yields of tomatoes as just one example, and acts as a sort of armor for plants making them stronger vs. pests and diseases.

[@davidthegood]

Good info, thank you.

[@teenagardner3623]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video. I love my 3 bay system I did out of wood pallets. Then, I was so depressed that all my work for my family garden had gone to the neighbors' bubble gum tree no compost for me. You inspire my green thumb again. I will make my own slab. ❤

[@donavinnezar]

i live in a apartment and have a small patch of dirt i can tend , i compost a good majority of my food waste via vermicomposting , used to copost leftover food via bokashi and then use that as worm fodder worked great

[@davidthegood]

Extra points for FO:NV

[@debrabeghtol4332]

Reading your Compost Everything book. Love it! Always looking for ideas, options and entertainment 😊. Very Thankful 🙏🥰. Got a broken dishwasher about ready to grow worms. Fine tuning hot compost collection system. Urine is sterile.....

[@hardstylzz5024]

Using the wood pallets for a compost bin so far it works maybe few roots next to elderberry and beauty bush, my chickens loves scratching in it.

[@R.A.Nobell]

Love your honesty. Never change please. How small can one compost? I'm using 80 oz pickle jars for my kitchen cuttings, when I fill 5 jars, I add them to a 5 gallon joint compound bucket along with cut up newspaper or cut up cardboard, in the fall brown leaves. I add a little soil from the garden. Turn it every couple of days. In about a week or so i dig a trench where next years veggies will be planted next spring and Bury the mess. You should see the worms in these spots! BTW I see that chickens make excellent manure. Any thoughts on pigeon manure? No chickens here in NYC, but plenty of pigeon poop under the bridge.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

nice story Dave 👍🫵🏻💪🏻🌳🌳🌳

[@wesleyrobbins]

Great idea now you can add a gutter and collect the nutrients.

[@MargieWolff]

Compost ev everything, especially the gutter cleanings ! ! ! Thank for the giggles and the good reminders..from The Nanas from Central Florida😮

[@leoscheibelhut940]

As you have said many, many times, there are many ways to compost. Thanks for the explanation though.

[@takeitslowhomestead5218]

Great information! Thanks!

[@jademorgan4763]

Absolutely love this video. I love all your content, but you articulated this thought so! Well!

[@RUNNINGWylde-wq1bi]

Yes sir. I had the grass rhizomes grow into my pile and I refused to use it on the garden after spending years getting them out. This is a great way to compost

[@davidthegood]

I had Bermuda grass invade my last big pile I put on the ground. I am in the same camp as you - won't dare use it now.

[@RUNNINGWylde-wq1bi]

@@davidthegood yep you have more experience than me and I learned most of what I know from you and have been successful. Thanks chief Happy Thanksgiving and merry Christmas to you and the family

[@davidthegood]

You too!@@RUNNINGWylde-wq1bi

[@nkc9788]

Be thankful for you have!

[@unnamed2737]

I have a compost tumbler, fully enclosed, no ground contact, full of life when it’s done.

[@dgblac0]

Great video

[@WilliamMiller-nr5gb]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and to your entirely Good family, David! May all of our attitudes be of gratitude, because of our awareness of our blessedness. And may all of our thumbs be green! 😊❤️🙏

[@burtrat4851]

Yup that was me. Appreciated the reply at the time. Cheers from North Queensland 👍

[@bethb8276]

I am thankful I have a suburban backyard, and I'm always thinking about how I can do things on a smaller scale. Thanks for showing us how and why! Happy Thanksgiving!

[@melissasekely5107]

Hey I was wondering if I can put my cats kills in my garden? In a hole of course. Oh yeah I love the cement for your new bin!! The girl that lived here before me started a compost pile right under a tree so that’s where I threw my stuff and I was watching one of your old videos and did a total face palm 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😂 there’s so many roots! I kinda fixed it with rubber flooring and pallets but idk how much longer we’ll be here so whatever!

[@trishapomeroy9251]

I think that system is FABULOUS!! I kinda wish I needed a system that big LOL

[@lincwayne3435]

Thank you! Much needed video for me. 👍👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿

[@kerem7546]

i've found worms living in the soil of my gutters, pretty marvelous!

[@jeil5676]

Oh I wish I could grow all that bamboo ya got behind the compost. I would use all those canes in my garden.

[@BatYAH2015]

I've only got 1 acre land, 1 horse and some chickens. Yet i built a compost exactly like yours (minus the floor) 6 months ago and im very happy with it.

[@davidthegood]

Epic!

[@JulesGardening]

Very true!

[@newkekarmyreee4788]

I concur.

[@SimplyCanningSharon]

I had this happen to me too. My leaf pile was full of roots at the very bottom. I use a simple round fence and fill it up with leaves in the fall. Slow compost but low labor. :). I ended up just leaving the last bit right where it was. AND I built my leaf piles this year in my new mini orchard. It'll be close to where I need it, then I'll move them over a bit to create new piles next fall. The spot where my leaf piles are this year will be nice rich spots of earth!

[@SimplyCanningSharon]

I may even plant some vining plants, (pole beans, sweet potatoes?) around the bins in the spring. The leaves do not break down fast and I won't be using it until fall.

[@kevina1084]

That’s cool. I don’t have a lot of land so I keep a bottom on my compost too.

[@sfc334]

5:54 I remember! Then you decided to leave New York and bought the Haney Place Hoping all is well, Happy Thanksgiving, and may God continue to bless and keep you and your family.

[@gryphonrampant1]

My bin doesn't have a bottom (unless you count compacted clay lawn dirt) but it's slightly elevated and next to where my fruit tree row is, bringing whatever nutrient-soaked runoff from the pile straight to my asian pear tree. Thus far, no big roots in the pile, but I turn it rather aggressively which may deter root growth. I'm curious about drainage on your bins, with the intense rain events you folks get. As the rain soaks through the pile, it can't possibly hold all the water, and I'd assume there's an outflow of essentially compost tea. Does it work to feed your bamboo or flow down towards the garden, or disappear into the sand?

[@davidthegood]

It runs away into the sand. At least for now.

[@jperello001]

I had a raised bed about 30-40 feet from my live oak tree. The feeder roots from that tree was soaking up all the nutrients in my soil. I had to move my raised beds!

[@JoshuaSaundersAtLarge]

Same problem with raised beds. I thought i was far enough away from a maple tree, but every year i have to tear out a mess of roots from a bed i squeezed in. Next bed over, no roots. Frustrating.

[@davidthegood]

You can dig a trench about a foot deep through the ground between your bed and the tree. Often, the feeder roots are right near the surface and that will cut down on what finds your garden.

[@jakesarms8996]

I free-range compost with hoops of fencing. I got a few tumblers, but I don't like them .

[@derekclawson4236]

Just like certain people not keeping their hands to themselves some cannot keep their thoughts to themselves.

[@almostoily7541]

I have a cement slab with a huge oak tree next to it. Once it was almost a year before I raked it off. The under layer of leaves was broken down. It was a mix of finely broken leaves, soil, twigs and larger leaf pieces. So I had to rake it and then scrape the fine stuff up with a shovel. And that's with only oak leaves. Imagine what it will be like with a mix of materials! I wonder if there would be a way to put a drain in a cement bin like yours and collect the compost tea from it. I'm not a builder but it seems like it would be a good idea for when it rains or if you water it.

[@that_auntceleste5848]

Maybe I would have wondered for a moment about the bottom on your compost bin, but I was still registering the view of the bottom of your face! My brain: "Well the video I clicked on said David the Good, and that's his voice, but who's that kid who appears to be talking?" 🧔 --> 👨 Guess I have missed a few videos! 😅

[@christineelsey3104]

Hey my dear.. I think you have warned about tree roots in your compost pile.. lol.. & I kept this in mind when I finally got my pallet 2 bay compost system built this fall.. my husband didn't want it.. then insisted it be in the garden, if he agreed.. Strangely enough, my garden got bigger in size, lol.. I'm sorry people leave comments like you said.. cuz, that's craziness.. I only started watching UTube videos just over a year ago. In that time, I have watched many of your videos, from numerous "homesteads".. & you have shown how you then need to start your prepping gardens all over again.. (but hopefully, this one is a keeper..) & how you do it.. Strangely enough, I always have sympathy for You > cuz that's a Lot of work each time.. But those kind of complaints don't cross my mind.. I'm just Thankful for the knowledge you are imparting & figure out what will help in my own garden system.. Wish there had been UTube videos in the 1970s ~ would have made learning to garden much easier for my parents.. lol.. Mind u, we did learn.. 😊😊

[@jenbear8652]

The root problem happened to me where I piled up all the fall leaves for layering in the compost bin! I guess I should lay down a tarp next time before piling up the leaves

[@annelepak8815]

I'm distracted by your missing beard. I know I usually listen to my "shows" but this is blowing my mind 😂

[@gelwood99]

Yes, roots will always find a way to take over the compost. Even with a tractor after a few months, we went to turn it and it was impenetrable! We took down the sides and let nature have its way! This was exactly what I needed to see because I was thinking of putting down a sheet of steel roofing to stop it but I now don't think even that would work.!