6 Different Ways To Compost, No Matter Where You Live
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Crystal
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON FPT? (Fermented Plant Tea) essentially the idea is 3-4 steps.
1) to locate and identify the most dominant plant(weed) that is growing in your yard.
2)harvest a good amount of the plant(weed.
3)in a container (w/lid) place the plant (chopped up) inside and add RAW brown sugar (enough to significantly cover all the plant material.
4) once 1-3 are complete and container an its contents are then shook up and left to sit for 3-7 days. In a dark area (temp wasnt explained to me or given as a need be. There will be a liquid extract in the container.
5) pour the liquid extract into a separate container. dilute to create a solution of F. PC. the given raito was 20CC's of FPC to 5 GAL Of water!
I ask your opinion on the FPC bc i am genuinely curious if you have tried this as/for a form of fertilizer and if so, the results? Also, i havent done my homework on the FPC steps above. Its literally something i stumbled across on TT lol
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WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON FPT? (Fermented Plant Tea) essentially the idea is 3-4 steps.
1) to locate and identify the most dominant plant(weed) that is growing in your yard.
2)harvest a good amount of the plant(weed.
3)in a container (w/lid) place the plant (chopped up) inside and add RAW brown sugar (enough to significantly cover all the plant material.
4) once 1-3 are complete and container an its contents are then shook up and left to sit for 3-7 days. In a dark area (temp wasnt explained to me or given as a need be. There will be a liquid extract in the container.
5) pour the liquid extract into a separate container. dilute to create a solution of F. PC. the given raito was 20CC's of FPC to 5 GAL Of water!
I ask your opinion on the FPC bc i am genuinely curious if you have tried this as/for a form of fertilizer and if so, the results? Also, i havent done my homework on the FPC steps above. Its literally something i stumbled across on TT lol
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Chinatown
I have free range worms in the yard. Everything I toss back there, the worms get to it. I don't have worm bins. I have cardboard boxes from Amazon deliveries. Just put kitchen scraps in the cardboard boxes. Close the flaps. Stack them on top of each other. The worms get in there and do their job. Then I plant in them. Miniature raised beds. Everything can grow in a cardboard box full of worm castings. Tomato. Potato. Cabbage. Corn. Mustard. Sweet potato. Squash. Beans. Then in the winter, after I am done with the crops, I dump it all out around the base of my fruit trees. I can see all the worms that were living in the boxes. Those worms go right back into the yard, eating all the fallen leaves and fruit. And as I put out more boxes of kitchen scraps, they find those to make new cardboard raised bed planters for next spring.
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I have free range worms in the yard. Everything I toss back there, the worms get to it. I don't have worm bins. I have cardboard boxes from Amazon deliveries. Just put kitchen scraps in the cardboard boxes. Close the flaps. Stack them on top of each other. The worms get in there and do their job. Then I plant in them. Miniature raised beds. Everything can grow in a cardboard box full of worm castings. Tomato. Potato. Cabbage. Corn. Mustard. Sweet potato. Squash. Beans. Then in the winter, after I am done with the crops, I dump it all out around the base of my fruit trees. I can see all the worms that were living in the boxes. Those worms go right back into the yard, eating all the fallen leaves and fruit. And as I put out more boxes of kitchen scraps, they find those to make new cardboard raised bed planters for next spring.
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Софья
I've started using the Bokashi method a few mothns ago, but my way differs a bit. In a post soviet countries its called EM composting which means effective microorganisms composting. This is when you use a bokashi bucket but with a speshial faucet and when you put food leftovers there, you need to spray a mixture of water and a special composition with bacteria, similar to lactic, from above. They speed up the fermentation process inside and prevent mold from developing. Once every 2-3 days, the liquid must be drained through the tap and used as a concentrate for irrigation, and again diluted with water in a certain proportion and again sprayed with garbage from above in the bucket. Its perfect for apartment owners.
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I've started using the Bokashi method a few mothns ago, but my way differs a bit. In a post soviet countries its called EM composting which means effective microorganisms composting. This is when you use a bokashi bucket but with a speshial faucet and when you put food leftovers there, you need to spray a mixture of water and a special composition with bacteria, similar to lactic, from above. They speed up the fermentation process inside and prevent mold from developing. Once every 2-3 days, the liquid must be drained through the tap and used as a concentrate for irrigation, and again diluted with water in a certain proportion and again sprayed with garbage from above in the bucket. Its perfect for apartment owners.
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handmade
I live in zone 6, winter is usually in 30s to 40s with some periods in single digits. If I dug trenches in my garden and put food scraps in during November and December, will they be broken down by April? I don't have a lot of garden space so I don't want to have space I have to set aside waiting for soil to compost. Or can I plant right over my compost in the making in trench? In the coldest part of winter, soil will be too frozen to fill in the trench, so I think I have to be using the trench only late fall, early winter.
Also, I saw the video Kevin referred to, but other you tubers show putting in literally all kitchen scraps: bread, stuff with salad dressing or butter on it. Is that a good idea?
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I live in zone 6, winter is usually in 30s to 40s with some periods in single digits. If I dug trenches in my garden and put food scraps in during November and December, will they be broken down by April? I don't have a lot of garden space so I don't want to have space I have to set aside waiting for soil to compost. Or can I plant right over my compost in the making in trench? In the coldest part of winter, soil will be too frozen to fill in the trench, so I think I have to be using the trench only late fall, early winter.
Also, I saw the video Kevin referred to, but other you tubers show putting in literally all kitchen scraps: bread, stuff with salad dressing or butter on it. Is that a good idea?
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skinnyWHITEguy
Just bury anything and everything that used to be alive in trenches in your garden. When you have any barr spot without plants just stuff a bunch of fish, weeds, kitchen scraps, animal manure, animal bedding or anything that decomposes and it will compost in the ground as worms and micro organisms devour it while leaving behind beautiful black nutrient rich soil. Easy way to diapose of waste without having to build bins or turn compost or carry around stuff and adding around plants. Cant beat the easy way.
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Just bury anything and everything that used to be alive in trenches in your garden. When you have any barr spot without plants just stuff a bunch of fish, weeds, kitchen scraps, animal manure, animal bedding or anything that decomposes and it will compost in the ground as worms and micro organisms devour it while leaving behind beautiful black nutrient rich soil. Easy way to diapose of waste without having to build bins or turn compost or carry around stuff and adding around plants. Cant beat the easy way.
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Dave
I built a pallet cube and filled it in no time so i built a second one. I put in grass cuttings and trimmings as well as peel and scraps, the bulk of it is tea bags though (British. I turn it occasionally, not too often and I mostly ignore it. Worms just move in and do their thing. When the time comes to use it it looks like compost. It could maybe be hotter as sometimes the thicker twigs are still twigs.
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I built a pallet cube and filled it in no time so i built a second one. I put in grass cuttings and trimmings as well as peel and scraps, the bulk of it is tea bags though (British. I turn it occasionally, not too often and I mostly ignore it. Worms just move in and do their thing. When the time comes to use it it looks like compost. It could maybe be hotter as sometimes the thicker twigs are still twigs.
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AJ
I could just imagine that on a patio of an apartment leaking stinky juice and if the patio was made of wood that stinky juice dripping down to your neighbor's below. OMG I would hate to be the below neighbor in an apartment with an above neighbor who had one of those compost bins! There would definitely be some issues. Perhaps even some retaliation? Who flung poo on my sliding glass door? LOL
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I could just imagine that on a patio of an apartment leaking stinky juice and if the patio was made of wood that stinky juice dripping down to your neighbor's below. OMG I would hate to be the below neighbor in an apartment with an above neighbor who had one of those compost bins! There would definitely be some issues. Perhaps even some retaliation? Who flung poo on my sliding glass door? LOL
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Jonathan
If composting with only vegetation (no guano, bone meal or other major source of phosphorus) would the ratio of potassium (too much) to phosphorus (too little) cause problems for plants or the resulting soil microbiome? I notice phosphorus seems to be much more concentrated from animal sources; is this because animals require a higher concentration for optimal health/growth?
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If composting with only vegetation (no guano, bone meal or other major source of phosphorus) would the ratio of potassium (too much) to phosphorus (too little) cause problems for plants or the resulting soil microbiome? I notice phosphorus seems to be much more concentrated from animal sources; is this because animals require a higher concentration for optimal health/growth?
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Sage
I have been researching for some time about what is the best way to distribute the tea on a larger scale. As in, a pump and hose running from a 55g barrel of compost tea. I've learned that diaphragm pumps are ideal. Centrifugal pumps will chop up some of the strands of fungi. I still haven't found the best brand of diaphragm pump for a mid scale amount. Any recommendations?
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I have been researching for some time about what is the best way to distribute the tea on a larger scale. As in, a pump and hose running from a 55g barrel of compost tea. I've learned that diaphragm pumps are ideal. Centrifugal pumps will chop up some of the strands of fungi. I still haven't found the best brand of diaphragm pump for a mid scale amount. Any recommendations?
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Allie
So for my cats we switched from cat litter to pelletized pine bedding. Which means I have wood waste. I recently got a small barrel rotating composter and i Decided, what the heck, I've got essentially cat crap and sawdust, might as well see if it composts. It seems to be going well, and I; ve mixed shredded paper from the office and garden and kitchen scraps.
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So for my cats we switched from cat litter to pelletized pine bedding. Which means I have wood waste. I recently got a small barrel rotating composter and i Decided, what the heck, I've got essentially cat crap and sawdust, might as well see if it composts. It seems to be going well, and I; ve mixed shredded paper from the office and garden and kitchen scraps.
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Myriam
About the laziest method- my ex would bury fish in our garden and yall cant imagine how beautiful and full our garden got! Fruitful beyond any previous years we also started to sort of lay potato skins around the garden which my mom uses to do hen I was growing up, so its actually very efficient method. At least our garden was fruitful if nothing else
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About the laziest method- my ex would bury fish in our garden and yall cant imagine how beautiful and full our garden got! Fruitful beyond any previous years we also started to sort of lay potato skins around the garden which my mom uses to do hen I was growing up, so its actually very efficient method. At least our garden was fruitful if nothing else
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Janina
I love my garden but composting I never got to work, till I saw a vid by a scandinavian gentleman old enought to be my grandad, and he had an extra blender and threw his scraps in there, blended and added to garden as liquid. daily. works for me.
Outside a bin of water, to drown any weeds and return liquid to garden and also dead weeds.
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I love my garden but composting I never got to work, till I saw a vid by a scandinavian gentleman old enought to be my grandad, and he had an extra blender and threw his scraps in there, blended and added to garden as liquid. daily. works for me.
Outside a bin of water, to drown any weeds and return liquid to garden and also dead weeds.
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A1BASE
I never liked my tumbler composter. It took ages and was a pain in the ass to actually get compost out of it. I got a vermicomposter last year and it's a MILLION times better. I thoroughly recommend checking out the Hungry Bin Vermi Composter. No smell, no rodents, and it eats home waste. I'm super happy with it.
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I never liked my tumbler composter. It took ages and was a pain in the ass to actually get compost out of it. I got a vermicomposter last year and it's a MILLION times better. I thoroughly recommend checking out the Hungry Bin Vermi Composter. No smell, no rodents, and it eats home waste. I'm super happy with it.
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Kathy's
I have my own website to help beginners create their own gardens. On my SOIL page, I link to this video under the compost section. I hope you don't mind if I bring more people to you. ;-) You have excellent (no frills) content and very easy to understand and follow. Thank you.
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I have my own website to help beginners create their own gardens. On my SOIL page, I link to this video under the compost section. I hope you don't mind if I bring more people to you. ;-) You have excellent (no frills) content and very easy to understand and follow. Thank you.
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LifesGood
You know what, I just REALLY, REALLY appreciate all the knowledge you share with us. I've been binge watching you for past few days and because of the straight forward way you teach, I've already started 2 projects. Will continue learning from you and will try more.
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You know what, I just REALLY, REALLY appreciate all the knowledge you share with us. I've been binge watching you for past few days and because of the straight forward way you teach, I've already started 2 projects. Will continue learning from you and will try more.
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