Which Compost is Best 🏡😈🍻 Compare Different Composts

These videos couldn't be any better! They breakdown the fundamentals of gardening so you actually understand the reasoning behind your actions. You won't have to memorize what to do anymore. You can be the free thinking gardener that can adapt to changes in the garden because you'll understand what to do and when. Thank you so much for these great videos!

So refreshing to hear straightforward, factual 'non magic' discussion of these topics.

I have recently noticed the amount of wood chips added to a bag of "compost". It is like a cheap filler material they can add to make another penny. If they could add more air they would do that too.

Two comments to add. First, about biosolids, by law many industries have to pretreatment their wastewater to remove certain chemicals before discharging to the local wastewater collection system. Specific testing has to be done before the industrial wastewater is discharged. Second, about commercial mushroom compost, my Dad spent over fifty years as a mushroom grower. Most commercial mushroom compost are based on horse manure from racetracks and horse farms. The composting process is a hot one. Then as part of the preparation for inoculating the compost with mushroom spawn, the compost is pasteurized at 150 degrees to kill pests and diseases of the mushrooms. After the mushrooms have been grown, many times the used compost is pasteurized again to control mushroom pests before it is dumped out. In the making of the compost things like cotton seed meal or oil or dried biosolids are added to meet the nutritional needs of the mushrooms. Someplaces put a layer of pasteurized soil or peat moss on top of the compost to help induce the fruiting process of the mushrooms. Mushroom compost is more complex than presented in the video. It is really worth the effort to put on the garden because of not only for the plant nutrients, but also how it improves the structure of the soil.

Years ago, I had a farmer friend that allowed me to clean out his calf huts. One spring he had a manure spreader whose chain that run the flinger broke and the trailer had to be unloaded to repair it. Here I was shoveling it into my little 5'x8' trailer when I looked at the hitch which matched my truck hitch, you see where I'm going with this. Ours was a newly, being built neighborhood, so I had a little more latitude. For the next 5-6 years I had broccoli as big as cabbage heads. Weeds pulled with ease. I wish I had a local farmer close by today... 40 years later, even for the much smaller trailer loads! I now collect leaves in the fall.

My physical ability to make compost is limited age, 74, and health, sciatica, so I'm buying compost at local yard. It seems to work well. My municipality sells its compost and some local gardeners complain of weeds from it. I also use leaves, which many people discard, perhaps afraid of untidiness. Their gardens often look almost artificial, certainly unnatural. Thank you for solid scientific analysis.

We have a pile of well rotted sheep manure in the pasture, I’m going to be shoveling that out this spring for sure💚🙃 I should have mentioned I have heavy clay soil so It will be a great benefit.💚🙃 I’m so glad I stumbled onto your channel, my husband was listening, as I was,to your explanations on things and he committed on how much he liked the way you explain everything, so people can understand it, layman’s terms. Thanks again!💚🙃

Thank you for taking the time to present such a clear and concise scientifically based explanation about the different types of compost. I found it very helpful.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I greatly appreciate your time putting the video together for us.

This was such an important and useful gardening video; I wish I’d watched this years ago. Thanks so much: the simplicity of your research cuts through all the over-analysing by garden gurus that’s so prevalent today.

For my garden, I just throw vegetable, fruits waste into my garden throughout winter. I turn it over every so often. I also put in my fireplace ash, grass cuttings before planting, and leaves I vacuumed up in the spring and fall. This has made my vegetables and garden boom. Bern doing this for about 6 years and it has worked great for me.

Best gardening content on YT. Just amazing. Thanks!

I agree with everything more or less, I just have to say look into microbes more because they are a lot more beneficial then once thought to be.

I BOKASHi everything. Kitchen scraps, garden wastes/trimmings/spent fruit and vegetables, all goes into my Bokashi buckets. I have 20 litre (5gal) pails. A top pail with small holes drilled in the bottom fits into the bottom pail that catches all the juices that leach out as the Bokashi ferments. The system needs to be tightly compressed as it runs optimally in an anaerobic (without access to air) environment. In the summer the process will take about 2-4 weeks but in the winter it slows down significantly. I empty the finished product into my tumbling composter. The real essential value is the remaining leachate that is collected in the bottom pail. There is 1-2 litres and it is never to be used directly anywhere as it’s anaerobic virtue makes it toxic (I believe). I pour this smelly liquid into a 150 litre(30gal) plastic drum that has an aeration stone and fish tank air pump that promotes the aerobic bloom to populate the total liquid volume. After a week of bubbling I pour that aerated liquid onto my garden laced with any liquid fertiliser of choice (fish/kelp). Every 2~4 weeks my plants are fed like this and from results it appears to be a winning combination. There’s a fair amount of labour involved doing this however virtually anything I plant will thrive and fruit outstandingly. This is definitely my green thumb advantage and as I have only been growing for a couple of years it appears to be working extremely well.

Thank you for the explanatory video. very helpful as usual.

A fair analysis of composting, thanks for keeping it simple. There are a lot of people that want to go off the deep end about micro-nutrients, trace minerals, with not a lot of testing to back them up. I am a market-gardener and by buy local Dairy Compost and I started making my own compost, from spent vegetables and rejected vegetables from a local food bank and wood shread. My bins are 6' x 5' x 5' high. I am able to get a good bit of heat (160 degrees). I am looking to kill any weed seed and pathogens. We grow a lot of greens and that is one of the reasons I stopped using fresh manure.

Thank you so much! I’m trying my hand at raised gardening and am in the beginning stages. Have watched hundreds of videos, and it wasn’t until I watched your videos on dirt and compost that I finally feel confident in how I am going to fill these beds. Love and Light to you!!

excellent information! clear, down to earth and honest. Thank you!

Best gardening channel I've seen for straight forward, useful info. Liked, subbed, all notifications !

Thank you so much for the information, getting close to planting time here on the East Coast.