Growing Food Vlog - Day 1 - Installing a Compost Container

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My urban self-sufficiency quest gets underway with the installation of a new compost container, and the sorting out of the garden.



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[Sheila6325]

Make sure there are holes in the bottom of that composter. If you put too much water on it, it will go bad and boy is that terrible. The largest items in a compost pile are dried up leaves from trees, and grass. The grass gets hot and cooks the leaves and they both turn into dark rich soil. Kitchen scraps are great, egg shells, coffee grinds, bananna peels, orange peels, etc. Nothing Greasy, or Oily, or anything that is not GROWN.

No need to add much soil, your going for light and fluffy.

[rickvanman]

Thanks for the tips. I have since emptied most of the soil out of the composter and regularly add kitchen scraps etc. The remaining soil in the bottom, I dig a spade full from beneath and add it on top of the kitchen scraps etc each time I add more. Hopefully it will all work out over time.

[johnny102marvin]

I was watching SQUARE FOOT GARDENING on YouTube. How deep is the soil suppose to be. I like this square foot gardening concept better than I do container gardening.

[rickvanman]

I understand it to be between 6 - 8 inches deep. I've just built my first square foot bed - hope to build another as soon as the rain stops!

[24602400]

look up square foot gardening. it might help.

[rickvanman]

Thanks, i hope to employ square foot gardening as one of the methods I'll be using

[Sheila6325]

Sounds like you already have it down pat! Your going to just love it when you see how it makes your plantings grow. You can use a lot less water in the summer too. Compost is just great, and thank you for getting me started on my gardening, you sure perked me up to get busy. Good luck, and bless.

[MrHorsetail]

I compost every year. It's a great hobby. It won't cook in the winter, but when spring comes throw something containing nitrogen in it like your hydro solution, green stuff, coffee grounds. I compost mostly grass clippings from my anyone who wants to get rid of them. You need to throw fresh green grass in because the nitrogen dissipates and then the grass turns brown. You need to keep it stirred up and don't throw anything but plant material in it because it will stink and harbor diseases.

[s0s0bad]

Great stuff, I've just moved home and have a micro garden. Will be knocking up raised beds soon. Might even set up a bee hive while I'm at it. Keep up the vids, they're a great inspiration.

[RJL738]

I'm glad to see you making video about what you are doing with your garden.

[55022RSG]

Great Video Rick  =D

[ZZReptiles]

reminded me of The Big Comfy Couch haha. that old American tele show

[niallswand]

Great! What about a few time lapse videos with your great music behind it...?

[lillith886]

what an exciting project. can't wait to see how much you get from your 'no longer low maintainance' garden. we just dug over the polytunnel ready for our first seeds. we did it in t-shirts and got too warm in there!! lol!! we use old tyres for our composters. we're going to relocate them into the polytunnel so that they don't stop working in the winter months and the leachate from the bottom can feed the plants in there.