EASY Composting Methods & MYTHS with Robert Pavlis
Published 2024-07-19
If you're interested in learning how to compost, this is an episode you don't want to miss. In this interview with Robert Pavlis, he teaches on various composting methods, what materials can be composted, common composting myths, and how you can easily get started composting in your garden today!
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Time Codes:
0:00 Intro
0:46 Special Invite to Fall Vegetable Gardening Summit
1:21 What is composing
2:31 When you can add the compost to the garden
5:00 A common confusion with compost
6:45 What to know about adding manure to compost
10:46 How to test for herbicides in manure
13:00 How all forms of compost are the same
17:01 Various composting methods and how to decide which one is best
20:24 Information on vermicomposting
22:26 How to do the chop and drop method
27:35 How much compost to add to garden beds
31:45 The concern with using wood chips
35:08 Browns vs greens
39:53 What to know about coffee grounds in compost
44:27 An important message about natural products in gardening
45:44 What items to not add to compost
53:43 An overview of Robert’s presentation at the Fall Gardening Summit
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All Comments (8)
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I enjoyed and learned how to better compost. Your information is always helpful. Thank you
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I’m so glad I found you!
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I really enjoyed this presentation and I’m looking forward to the summit in August. Thank you both!
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by the way good show and I hope your site continues to grow.
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What about the ice packs that come with meal kit deliveries like "Hello Fresh." They often say their ice pack gel contains nitrogen that is "good for gardens."
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what if you add chicken or cow manure to the finer wood chips? will that break down faster?
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viruses are the most labile living organisms... once the host cell dies, they die.they don't live long away from host cell for long.....if at all we are to be concerned it is about spores of bacteria and fungi but not viruses..
