Master Class On Making Compost
Making compost is one of the best things you can do for your garden. Not only does it condition the soil and helps plants grow healthy, strong, and resistant to disease, but it also contains loads of nutrients and minerals making the foods growing in compost more nutritious.
It literally brings soils to life and creates a web of life that transfers information to the plants that make them thrive.
Compost is organic matter that has been decomposed in a process called composting. This process recycles various organic materials otherwise regarded as waste products and produces a soil conditioner.
Compost is rich in nutrients. It is used, for example, in gardens, landscaping, horticulture, urban agriculture, and organic farming. The compost itself is beneficial for the land in many ways, including as a soil conditioner, a fertilizer, addition of vital humus or humic acids, and as a natural pesticide for soil. source
Geoff Lawton is a master at creating compost. In this video, he shows you how to make the very best compost for your garden. Once you've done it a few times and learned the recipe it's just like making a cake.
18 Days Compost - Permaculture Soils
Compost piles create heat as the materials break down and this heat can be captured to heat a greenhouse. This is great to do in cold climates and can get your spring plants off to a great start in early spring.
One of my favorite ways to capture this heat it to run a black plastic pipe through the compost pile to create hot water.
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Fabulous :) I am just starting my permaculture garden. I like the idea of capturing the heat from the heap to provide warm water.
I love permaculture and have done lots of it. Just posted some good videos about it and there;s some good link at the bottom of this post too you may like.
https://steemit.com/gardening/@luzcypher/what-is-permaculture-permaculture-basics-with-geoff-lawton
Yes, thank you - tea time viewing :)
My first little foray into permaculture was to transform a yard that had been overgrown for years with "lasagna mulch." The life that swarmed under that layer of cardboard was amazing, and I literally went from waist high weeds to a bountiful garden in one year.
That is a great technique and makes for some great soil. Here's a post about reclaiming a weed infested piece of land and transforming it into a thriving vegetable garden using chickens.
https://steemit.com/gardening/@luzcypher/chickens-planting-gardens-how-to-get-chickens-to-plant-gardens-not-destroy-them
"The grass is greener where you water it" - lol!
Salatin is a genius IMO. He is the one who took it from small, hobby farming to massive food production. I do the pasture penning thing for my meat birds and have free ranged my layers in the past, but we plan to switch to a paddock system this year. I took last year off, no chickens at all. It was really nice not having chicken poop just everywhere and I do not want to go back to that lol!
I like Salatin. He is one of the best.
Awesome article! About what temperature can you get water up to with that compost system? I imagine the length and diameter of the pipe are pretty major factors, but what would be a realistic temperature?
Watch the video. It will show that in that particular pile it got to around 145 F or 63 C.
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