How To Make Fast Compost At Home - Make Compost Fast

how'd you get from this to this in less than two weeks so keep watching and I'll show you exactly how you can get from ordinary grass clippings to usable finished compost in about ten days time and I'll show you the exact process from start to finish how you get from grass clippings that you're gonna cut from your lawn so if useable compost that you can use in your garden as a mulch or even as a potting soil my last video on how to rush in your compost I mentioned that I'd show you how to make compost in less than two weeks and what this is is these are leaves that have gathered from underneath my hedge and I've also got this nice pile of leaves here the scrounged and got together and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna prep these out or Malone and I'm gonna make this compost with simple ingredients with just leaves and grass that's all that that's all that you need just leaves and grass and the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to blitz these up with my lawnmower it might look like I'm littering but if you haven't got access to these this is another suit you can use it's lots and lots of cardboard some leaves I'm spreading all this cardboard out on my lawn so I can kill two birds with one storm see cardboard and your leaves are given your carbon source and your grass is giving you nitrogen source and the other little kick is either some molasses some sugary water some fizzy drinks anything with a lot of sugar in it that's gonna be your activator some human urine even that'll even do it now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna mix this all together I have to cut the grass anyway so we'll blitz it all up I've got it spread out on the lawn I can rip I can cut the grass and I can lick this all up in the same goal so with this with the cardboard you can stick this through a paper shredder at home an endo paper shredder if you want but the lawnmowers going to do just as good a job but you might have to blitz it through a couple of times because it and it could end up with big chunks but you want them in a smaller pieces as possible so we're gonna go over that again we're going to spread it out again and we'll go over it one more time a good mix of grass cardboard leaves so I'm gonna make make my mix of sugar water with the molasses and the war you don't need loads of molasses in there so all you need is something for the bacteria to feed on so give that a little mix so all you want is something that looks like a weak tea and that'll be fine when I mixed everything up there was a layer of cardboard that wasn't fully broke before we flip stop it's quite big so this is gonna be the first day that I put down a snare now it's important to do this on soil because this is gonna this process is gonna need the bacteria from the soil life as well as as well as the bacteria from the grass and the heat that is automatically gonna be you know the bacteria that's going to be automatically generated when during the normal composting process and this is going to be what I pile on next on - on top of that cardboard if you were making a new bed then this would be an ideal way of making a lasagna garden bed and that'd be fine but what we're gonna do is we're not gonna just use the heat from generating from the bacteria to break this down but we're gonna try and capitalize on the heat from the Sun we're having a good spell of weather at the moment so we're going to capitalize on that as much as possible now I'm gonna wet it down with the molasses water I mean like I said you can use this with any sugary water all we're trying to do is use it as an activator something that's gonna with human urea is all fine we're just trying to feed that bacteria I'm just gonna keep piling this on and we're not relying on mass for heat here we're relying on solar power it's gonna be quite a labor-intensive process now we've got everything covered we've got a pile created with that final water this next step is important that you cover it and you need to cover it with something dark so if you've got some blacktop hauling if not I've just got a couple of bin liners and we'll cover it with these because what we want is when that Sun beats down on this one that Sun to heat the pile opera's you want the bacteria that's gonna be part of the normal composting process and from that soil activity if you wanted you could add some soil into this mix some Audrey garden soil because a teaspoon of soil contains billions of bacteria and we just want to get that to help with this breakdown process and it's going to be quite intently incentive so I'm going to come back tomorrow I'm going to break this pile apart give it another stir and then put it back together again and I'm going to repeat this for the next week to ten days and in about ten days we're going to have compost that we can use so I'm waiting it all down with some bricks I'll come back tomorrow and I'll give this another I'll mix the pile up again and in about 10 days so it's day two of our compost pile so it's time to check the temperature and give it a turn if we need to so come on let's have a look so the temperatures about thirty degrees Celsius well-well just over thirty eight thirty degrees Celsius so it's time to give this break this pile down and give it a mix up you can see that it's starting to break down the grass is starting to lose a bit of color when I open it up like this it's already starting to decompose it does feel warm to the touch so what I'm going to do is I'm going to break this down properly and give it a good old mix up and then pile it back up again and that'll get it to heat up again really fast so we'll start off by breaking it apart and you can see that it's already starting to decompose this masti maxilla coming off it which is quite good for us I'm gonna get all that outside stuff in and the inside stuff out so we're breaking down quite lovely actually is even some worms moving in into the bottom so in two days we've already got this breaking down quite nice so we'll give it a good old mix up there's quite a few of our friendly helpers from the worm family coming in give it a good old mix up get it back piled up so this process isn't relying like I see it's not relying just on the bulk size of a compost pile to heat it up which is what you'd normally do with hot compost it's about the size and about the mass to get it to heat up this is about using the microbes in the soil the microbes from the sweetness that we added the sugar the molasses that kind of stuff and the sun's heat as well to work on our site by using the black covering that's what we use in to break this pile up so if it continues like this I'm very happy with this for two days so we'll come back tomorrow and we'll check it again and we'll keep doing these little yeah we'll keep coming back once a day checking the temperature breaking it up putting it back together I'll show you the finished product in a week's time in ten days time and see how this looks and how close to a finished product we are in just over a week so I'll just give it another water before I cover it up again [Music] there we go yeah we'll leave that to cook for a bit longer and we'll come back and have a look so it's been 10 days since we start this compost pile now let's have a look at what the results look like so the pile looks like it's pumped quite a bit in size and that we've been doing with this compost pile coming in we've been spreading it out and selling it every couple of days and as you can see it's broken down really nice here and especially if you get into the middle here look at that you still got some grass there you can see the strands of the grass but it's broken down really nicely and a lot of the heat has gone out of this as well I think this is a good compost now that's perfect for mulch in but if I wanted to turn this into a potting mix what I'd do is I'd sift it off and use a finer particle to mix with some soil and use that as a potting mix but I think this is perfect for motion I mean some of the cardboards are still there but other bits are broken down and you can see how lovely and nice it is in the middle and it's just full of worms and what I'm going to use this pile for is I'm just gonna launch this bed that we're on so I'm gonna use this bed here to plant my sweet corn so I'm just going to move this whole bed it's gonna be quite nice to enrich this compost because of the fact that we used a lot of grass clippings so I'm just gonna spread it out on here and some of the cardboards rock still intact but the grass and the leaves have broken down look absolutely lovely nothing that's fine it's just full of RAM as well look at that it's loads and loads of work look at look how many worms you've got they're absolutely beautiful see if you want to call in the worms if you can add the sweetness to the soil add some sugar and they'll come runnin because that's what they love they love it and that's one of the reasons that I use that molasses if you remember because you want to bring in the worms and I think that's a fine it's a good nutritious compost and we've made it really fast in less than two weeks and that's perfect so it's it's ideal for a time like this now if you've got access to chickens and you want to make a lot of compost in a in a lot of time go and check out my chicken compost continue about I put out because the weeks ago really simple really easy to follow check that out full of information and I'll see you on the next one as-salam-o-alaikum what I hold a lot

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Length: 13min 23sec (803 seconds)

Published: Sat May 09 2020