I live in the SE US and use oak leaves and pine needles all the time with absolutely no problem. I also crush my egg shells and add them to my compost pile. Never had a single problem.

@Dimongrl88

4 жыл бұрын

I live in California and use both pine needles and oak leaves I think there are 3 oak trees in my yard

@alexriddles492

4 жыл бұрын

Egg shells are very high in calcium. It seems to me that would help balance the acidity of oak leaves or pine needles.

@michealkingsborough6705

3 жыл бұрын

I live on the Eastern Shore of Virginia basically in a pine forest so my compost is probably 85% pine needles and my gardens have never shown any signs of stress from using my compost.

@evansullivanrichgels5531

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, nature is truly a great machine.

@johnsaia9739

2 жыл бұрын

Here in Virginia on the piedmont we use hardwood mulch with pine straw on top. Never had a problem in our red clay soil with pine straw, oak leaves etc. The plants all thrive when compost is added too.

For 30 plus years I've been making my own mix with washed out egg shells, banana peels, fallen pine needles & coffee grounds. I have gorgeous roses and cherry tomato plants every year.

@simrandhaliwal8195

Жыл бұрын

Do the pine needles break down? Mine dont

@Wendy_Blank

Жыл бұрын

Yes, they will break down. My pine trees are Blue Spruce and Eastern White Pine and have no trouble with them breaking down. I incorporate the fallen needles into the soil. I know it takes a long time for needles to break down by just sitting on top of the soil/ground. If you ever go into the woods or into a patch of pine trees and walk under the trees, the ground in there is very soft. Use a small hand shovel/spade and dig just a little bit, you will see the soil is a very deep brown with a reddish tint to it and very light/soft powdery type of soil. Due to the pine resins, only certain bugs and fungi will come to help break/feed on them. So, it takes a little longer because not all the bugs, fungi or creepy crawlers are willing to eat and digest them. I hope I've explained this correctly.

@kathleen8104

Жыл бұрын

@@simrandhaliwal8195 They say if you cut them in half they produce rich black soil

@simrandhaliwal8195

Жыл бұрын

@@kathleen8104 I heard that as well. I cant figure out a way to efficiently cut pine needles. Dont want to do it by hand

@robertwalker1504

10 ай бұрын

@@simrandhaliwal8195just put them in a pile and run it over with a lawn mower

"If it was alive at some point, it can be composted. It just takes longer" -RED Gardens

@jeffmartin693

4 жыл бұрын

love the red garden vids also!

@user-dw2iy6iq8w

4 жыл бұрын

@stresser 123 But, he is correct...after 1000 years you will have fresh compost from plastic.

@AlsHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

So true

@PSonak

4 жыл бұрын

@@GravefriHave Plastic was never alive, it is made from various things, some of which were at one point alive. There was never a herd of sandwich bags running around the plains of the Midwest. Nice try though.

@LiLBitsDK

4 жыл бұрын

@@PSonak plastic is made from oil, oil comes from dead animals, hence plastic was alive... and there are bacteria that can eat plastic... so yeah

People tried to tell me I couldn't compost spent fuel rods from a nuclear power plant, but I did it anyway and now my entire garden has a healthy green glow!

@apteryx7080

Жыл бұрын

people told me I couldn't compost the 20million bucks worth of wind turbine blades that weren't usable and had been dumped. turns out rhey were correct Those things don't break down, and they're not even recyclable. Green energy for the win ?

@ScallopHolden

Жыл бұрын

@@apteryx7080 let’s repurpose them as raised garden beds

@apteryx7080

Жыл бұрын

@@ScallopHolden Good suggestion, at least that way they won't be killing huge numbers of birds. I hate wind farms !!

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust .... we will all be compost at one time ....

@jf9335

4 жыл бұрын

“Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.” ~ Longfellow

@marykater.7169

3 жыл бұрын

I wish i had my morning coffee before reading this...

@uchibauki2515

3 жыл бұрын

Joe Bucci after died human should be composed and become dirt ! Funerals and cemetery are too expensive and no body will take care of our graveyard hundred years later😓

I always compost eggshells! I had no idea some people think it’s unsafe. 🤔. Great video!

@AlsHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah eggshells are such a nice byproduct of keeping chickens and eating eggs!

@philhacker1137

4 жыл бұрын

Calcium to your soil.

@MainAcc0

4 жыл бұрын

Be sure to share some with your chickens too! I always put half in my compost and grind the other half to add to my chickens' food.

@carlameaders4352

4 жыл бұрын

I bake my egg shells, crush them, then mix the crushed egg shells in with the chicken feed. It makes for a very hard shell when the girls pay their rent.

@TheRugghead

4 жыл бұрын

I microwave the shells for 60 seconds, It makes em easier to crush and i think it kills the bad stuff

I like the notion some people are worried about putting eggshells into the compost because of concerns over possible salmonella poisoning. If your eggshells had salmonella, think about it; didn't you just eat those eggs?

@Dimongrl88

4 жыл бұрын

Just toss them in the microwave for a min or toss them in boiling water, it will kill the bacteria

@danielsalach1234

4 жыл бұрын

@@Dimongrl88 I found out heating them in a 350 taster oven they grind up easer.

@shereygould9307

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielsalach1234 Exactly. Or just put them in the oven *after* you take something out that you had cooked while the oven cools down. I use a lot of them as slug control (major problem here in the Pacific NW).

@Greenthumbn1576

4 жыл бұрын

I just let them completely dry out like my mom used to do for at least a week then grind them and add it straight to my soil

@Cecil_X

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I ate the egg with a runny (raw) yolk! I started pulverizing the eggshells in the coffee grinder too. It works great. I just throw them the crushed egg shells into a container on the counter until the remaining albumin dries out, and about once every week or two I grind them in the coffee grinder.

People are way too paranoid about eggs and salmonella. It's very rare to come across a tainted egg.

@aatsista

4 жыл бұрын

As someone spent a year working the restaurang industry, cookig breakfasts - it's true but you do get a rotten egg omce in a awhile! 😁

@theoneandonly1158

3 жыл бұрын

My husband spent decades I the food and beverage industry. It's rare. We eat raw eggs often. I use eggshells that I powdered for my earthworms.

@ginninadances

3 жыл бұрын

Do they lick the eggs?

@zhippidydoodah

3 жыл бұрын

That's based on years and years of FDA propaganda. I think the US is the only country that even refrigerates eggs.

@AshGreen359

3 жыл бұрын

@@zhippidydoodah We refrigerate them because we wash them and remove the protective layer

I have a flower bed around a large dead Walnut tree that is mostly rotted and it is the healthiest flower bed I have and never needs fertilizer.

@charliemaddox3226

4 жыл бұрын

Not all plants are bothered by the chemical from the black walnuts. It also breaks down fairly quickly. One test for it's presence is to try and grow a tomato plant. They are sensitive to the poison.

@travisevans7502

4 жыл бұрын

@@charliemaddox3226 the tree has been dead for 10 years or better I don't think I have any problems to worry about I use to use the leaves off of it when it was alive for compost bin for my vegetable garden never had had any issue other than normal year to year differences in crops where some things better than others.

@AlsHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah the rotting wood provides a great fuel for beneficial bacteria which benefits your plants. Plus the rotting wood creates organic matter as well.

@Prettykittychimi

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve read the juglone stays in the soil for two years after the tree is dead. What flowers do you have planted there?

@Soilfoodwebwarrior

4 жыл бұрын

It feeds Fungi not bacteria. Wood is fungal food wide c to n ratio.

Composting and gardening have become obsessions of mine, thank you for all the helpful tips

@kanemeasham-pywell92

4 жыл бұрын

Justin L magical

I have been using Oak Leaves and egg shells in my compost for 15 years. Makes great compost called leaf mold for your garden.

@tog4787

4 жыл бұрын

leaf mold is pure gold!!

@terraint3697

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@donhorak9417

10 күн бұрын

Broadleaf oak leaves are ok. Live oak leaves take YEARS to break down.

we bake our egg shells at 350 degrees for half an hour to dry them out . Before pulverizing them into a fine powder . not for salmonella but to dry them so the powder dosn't clump .

I thought everybody composted egg shells.

@johnliberty3647

3 жыл бұрын

Not me, I feed them back to the chickens.. but if I did not have chickens they would go straight into the vermicompost.

@KARIS1961

3 жыл бұрын

Scotch Crofter I do. 👍

@lepidlover0557

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnliberty3647 chickens can eat eggshells????

@johnliberty3647

3 жыл бұрын

@@lepidlover0557 Yes... but some will choose not to.

@dana102083

3 жыл бұрын

@@lepidlover0557 chickens have gizzards, and worms do too! They both needs rough particles.. We fed our chickens pebbles too. They love bugs and fruits.. Chickens are funny :)

Hello, Everyone! First. I would love to say, Thank You Luke!!!!!. Now I appreciate the information that you have provided, and that you always provide. What I would love to say, We can agree to disagree that just about anything can be composted. Now, What I’m trying to state is anything that was of living matter or came from living matter at some point can be composted. (1Ex. All parts of Plants, Trees, Animals; (Bones, Meat, Blood, Skin,Excrete,Urine).. It will compost!!!!! Where we can Disagree to Agree or vise- versa. Is in the manner that the Living matter was treated. (Ex. What was given, feed or how it was treated and so on to so many factors.) It can all be composted.... What many people including Luke, Has taught me, Even including those who have stigmatically compromised any information; Whether to benefit, The-company, brand, or individual. Is that nature will some way, some how balance it’s self to create a balanced environment for life to survive or prosper. For those who have watched MI-Gardener over the years should understand where I’m coming from... But where we as the individual’s misinterpret what we Understand to know, Is we try to rush what nature has done for Eon’s, Millennia’s, Centuries’s, Quinquagenarian’s , Decade’s, Annually, or just in 90 days. We have no control over how long a final product takes to balance its self. Unless we substantiate what matters. I may have lost most people. But Luke, Please? Keep helping others understand what is needed to Growing Green, Big and Healthy. And would love if you could elaborate what I’m trying to say...

I had the same doubt when my neighbor gave me oak leaves and pine needles for my compost pile today.Anyway I mulched it with my mulcher and added into the tumbler. Now I can be sure nothing will go wrong.I have assurance from MIGardener

@jackren295

4 жыл бұрын

My grandma always collect fallen pine needles around pine trees in autumn to make great fertilizers for potted house plants. I've never heard about or seen it affecting the growth of the plants what so ever.

Hi Luke, I'm glad to hear the black walnut isn't so bad because I can't stop the squirrels from planting it in my raised beds and in my compost, I just pull up the little trees and flip them around and everything seems to be okay. Thanks for your videos!

Great info! I put all of that stuff in my compost and as long as it is all mixed in with other organic matter it has never been an issue

@gerhardbraatz6305

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, never had a problem.

Ok, so a few years back my son advised me not to use the neighbors oak leaves which each fall literally carpet my backyard. Then this year with more research and your advice, I was set to use them. However. . .each and every leaf was sticky! Even my bell peppers were that way from his tree??? It hangs into our yard. So I could not find ants or aphids which was my thought that had made the leaves sticky. So not knowing what that was all about I did not use those leaves. Thoughts on this? The other thing we buy bagged redwood chips and use those where I don't garden or want grass. Also around flowers and bushes of non edibles. Are these ok to add to compost? I have a small garden and compost with a tumbling type of composter and it never gets hot. I do get compost, worms so fat but it does not heat up. Can you enlighten me?? Thanks, The impatient gardener

I am glad to hear that. I am a woodworker. I never separated the black walnut sawdust from the other sawdust, and I have always added the compost to my garden. So good to know my composting habits are not what make me a great sinner.

Brand new to gardening and these type of videos are great. Please keep em coming

Alright. Safe to move forward composting concrete, old tires, and bodi- I mean walnuts.

@MinistryOfMagic_DoM

4 жыл бұрын

You joke but when I moved into my house the soil around it had animal bones and literally trash in it. I cleaned it best as I could even removing large amounts of concrete and bricks for some reason, but the soil grows stuff like crazy! Pretty sure the soil is just magic. It grows stuff for days.

@heidimisfeldt5685

4 жыл бұрын

No kidding. Every house I have ever rented had garbage in the yard, broken glass, tooth brushes, rocks and peples, cigarette buds, pieces of plastic, old pipes and other metal, etc. Even when you don't see it at first sight. I like to garden, and I want clean garden soil. No fragments of nothing that should not be there. So I spend lots of time cleaning it all up. Can't help but wonder how much chemical garbage has been spread on lawn and garden. I sure am not guilty of such a thing.

@heidimisfeldt5685

4 жыл бұрын

@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM I sure understand that. But yes, when we clean up and care for the land, it gives back abundantly in return.

@jtrose6995

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@maryjane-vx4dd

3 жыл бұрын

Lots of horseshoes tilled up in garden even 25 yrs later. Fariar must have reshoed horses and left old shoes. I use these old horse shoes for crafts

I guess I missed it, what are the 3 things we're not supposed to use?

I use citrus peels down my garbage disposal to freshen it. Smells so good.

@AlsHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@dana102083

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. Especially orange :)

Well, I've played composting the last couple of years but this next year coming I hope to get serious about it. Thanks for the composting videos.

MI Gardener: I have come to respect your information over the past 1/2 year. Your objectivity and practical approach to all things gardening are proving to be a great guide as I venture out into the world of soil and plants. SANKS!

I rinse the eggs shells, dry them, grind them and add them to my chickens feed. They need the calcium. Egg shells are calcium carbonate plus protein & minerals. Makes happy chickens.

@johnliberty3647

3 жыл бұрын

I do not even grind them down, I break them up with my hands and add it to all all the scraps I take out to the chickens.

@KARIS1961

3 жыл бұрын

Do the same for my ducks. 👍

@debbiecurtis4021

3 жыл бұрын

Same for my quail

salmonella is dangerous in sterile environments, in the garden there is too much competition to spread

Oh my goodness, he’s so adorable. You are so excited about gardening. It makes this one of my favorite channels to learn about how to grow a green thumb. Thank you! I have plenty of eggs from my Moms chickens so this will be great.

Awesome. I have a black walnut tree. A few oak trees too. I also use egg shells in my compost. Great news for me.

Thanks for all the time you take to give us all this info! Bertha in Texas.

I know this is a older video, but so happy to find out that walnut leaves and the small sticks that end up in my yard will not hurt my compost pile

So I shoveled all my compost from the bin and all it was perfect in texture and still had worms living even after all the cold weather we had. It must have been all the rain we had this year which means when I mix it in the soil it will hold moisture. Now I have added 8 inches of leaves, 2 inches of compost, and 8 inches of greens. Then 2 inches compost and more leaves and greens. My bin is nearly full but I plan to continue adding leaves and greens as ot settles down that you micros and gravity. My leaves have been stffed into 33 gallon bags and I will leave them stacked against the bin for insulation and easy access to empty into the bin as space becomes available. We'll see how this works out in a few months when spring arrives. Thanks again for your ideas.

I use eggshells in my compost. If I'm feeling very industrious, I will microwave them for a minute or two, which I've heard will help. I love all videos on compost. I'm obsessed with it. Thank you Luke for all the videos you've done. I started watching you when you were, what? A teenager? And it always amazes me to see you all grown up, a family man and still loving gardening. I'm old enough to be your mother, but if I were your mother, I would be so very proud of you. I haven't heard much about using dryer lint in compost, but a friend told me it brings earthworms. So I started using it and I have so many wonderful earthworms!

Thanks, that's great to know about the oak leaves. I have three large old growth red oaks in my yard and they drop a ton of leaves every year. I'm going to stop hauling them to the curb now and use them.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I only have oak and iron wood trees so now I have a way to dispose of them. 😁

Thanks for the info!! We use egg shells, leaves, wood, grass, dead veggie plants, etc... All good!!🙌🙌

I'm really glad people asked about these things. Especially the juglone / black walnut. I do have quite a few in my yard and do need to be careful to some extent with what I plant where and how I amend the soil. But for years we let the leaves break down and our soil is rather rich and we grow well. It is super important to pick up as many of the fruit as possible. The only issue to worry about compost wise that I have seen where the leaves are concerned is if the leaves have spots and fall early, like in August, it's super important to get rid of them (not compost or let to biodegrade) because the disease is difficult to control, and will overwinter). The effects show up not only in the trees themselves but in certain plants that would otherwise be fine.

Most places tell you to stick eggshells under your tomatoes to help with calcium. I've been doing it for years, works great.

@fathersdaughter173

4 жыл бұрын

Correct it helps with Blossom end rot!!!!!

@brentarnoldussen9420

4 жыл бұрын

@@fathersdaughter173 Incorrect, BER is usually not caused by a lack soil calcium extension.umn.edu/plant-diseases/tomato-disorders

@fathersdaughter173

4 жыл бұрын

@@brentarnoldussen9420 Well all I can say is its worked for me for several years as soon as I see that Blossom End Rot i sprinkle about andcwater my tomatoes. In a week or two gone and new growth. So thats been my story!

@brentarnoldussen9420

4 жыл бұрын

@@fathersdaughter173 Correlation does not equal causation. BER is most commonly found on the earliest set fruit, and is most likely caused by insufficient water to allow for CA+ uptake. These two facts are far more likely the explanation for what your describing than any effect from eggshells. Also consider the amount of time it would take for an eggshell to weather into enough ionic calcium to effect plant uptake is likely not 1-2 weeks.

@bduff71

4 жыл бұрын

Just did exactly that yesterday, crushed egg shells, coffee grounds, and compost

Way, way too much repetition at the start. Just get to it!

Thank you for doing your proper research and relaying the message. Facts over rumors. 👌

Excellent info! I knew that black walnut trees seem to kill off other plants but didn't know why. Thanks for an interesting vid.

Thank you Luke. You always have good information!😇

So glad to hear the walnut tree branches can be used as mulch. I found this video from searching that question. We're needing to have a couple walnut trees taken down on a property we own and will be getting the mulch from the limbs being ground up. I do plan on letting the mulch set until next year before we use it.

Thanks so much for this (and all of your other) helpful video. Question? Will putting oak leaves and/or pine needles around the base help a hydrangea to naturally take on a bluish hue?

Thanks for this video. Always got mixed views about walnut leaves. I will keep using them in my compost. Enjoy your videos and all your knowledge.

Thanks so much! Just picked up a bunch of bags of pine straw to compost and was worried for a minute! Great video!

Have a huge oak tree in the backyard and it drops leaves on the garden all the time. By the time harvest rolls by i basically have an oak mulch. Never felt like I had plants dying because of it. The idea of the leaves being bad for compost (it is what makes up most of my compost) had never occurred to me.

I am actually planning making a composting bin right now. So far just been piling stuff up which isn't optimal or attractive. So I'm going to build a 3 phase (bin) 12'x4'x4' composting bin. I have some lumbar from the Douglas First trees we cut and milled so should be decent when I'm done. Looking forward to some great outcomes!

@thesmirkinggrape

Жыл бұрын

How have your bins worked out for you 2 years on?

Pleae do a video on leaf mould. I need to know if its worth it to save my leaves for that or compost them with kitchen scraps

Thanks a bunch for this informational video. Good job!

I'm doing several test in my garden with different types of bed's and soils. Been getting some very interesting results. My more fungal dominated soil is producing much better than the other's. It's mostly pine oak and sand using no fertilizers or amendments and minimal irrigation. I'll add in some biochar, ash and rock dust eventually. Still working on building compost got several piles going.

@debbiecurtis4021

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. 3 separate compost bins and lots of raised beds.

I don't care what anyone says, I'll never put Oakley's in my compost

@michealkingsborough6705

3 жыл бұрын

Why would you want to put high priced sunglasses in your compost??? 🤔🤷 I believe that is what Oakley makes, correct me if I'm wrong please. 😁

@JacobDrosdick

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! I see what you did there

Great video!! Is walnut mulch bad for dogs?

Love this video. I use egg shells in my compost all the time. But I did not know that I could use pine needles. Thanks!!!

Hello, I have a question about composting newspaper. I lived in Thailand and pretty sure that newspaper company are still using petroleum based ink. So, is it safe to compost these newspaper. (All information on internet always says newspaper mostly used soy ink now but that's for developed country)

Thanks so much for this info. Especially appreciate the bits about juglone and egg shells. God bless you guys!

Thank you. I've been reluctant to put eggshells in my compost for the very reason mentioned. Now I feel better about using them.

I added eggshells and coffee grounds to one of my 2 mesquites when I planted it, its leaves are way greener, grows faster & darker trunk on that one. I think it really helped it

Great information about eggshells, thank-you.

I have always put crushed egg shells in my compost. It never occurred to me about salmonella. I do it because I remember my great-grandparents doing it.

Hey, it was good seeing you!! I'm in Michigan too.

Thanks for your tips.

I started chipping Pine, Maple and Grape Vines and Wild Thorny Vines and mixing it with Grass ,Weed and brown leaf mulch from my lawnmower about 6 to 8 weeks ago and still going. This stuff is composting very nicely already. The worms are in the bottom of it! If I keep working browns and greens into it through the fall I have a feeling I'm going to have some really really nice compost next year or the year after. I estimate my pile will be about 12 feel long 3 feet tall and about 6 feet wide by the end of the season . My concern is moisture, I have no convenient source of water but I have about 20 Dollar General 6x6 tarps I can grommet and wire tie together and cover for moisture retention .

I have a question regarding including the occasional dried rhubarb leaves in my compost pile. I understand that the leaves are poisonous, so it’s probably not a good idea. But as I rake the grass around the rhubarb in the Spring some of dried leaves are also racked up. Is this okay? I am also wondering about dried comfrey leaves collected in the cleanup. Thanks Luke. I appeciate it!

Hi Luke - a good friend of mine uses egg shells in her garden as a way to replenish calcium. Is there a safe way to kill any potential salmonella so these could be safely pulverized and worked into garden soil? (Is baking the shells effective at killing this bacteria?)

I must see this video in slow motion because it has very good information and it also gives us the right attitude

What's amazing about gardening is, even though we are already into the second decade of the 21st century, we are still learning, and what was considered inviolable even 20 years ago is now being turned on its head. When it comes to composting, I find the biggest problem isn't what to or what not to compost, rather how do I source enough inputs? I live in an area where pines and oaks are prevalent. Therefore, I solved my problem by learning how to compost pine straw and oak leaves. Now, I feel like I have an endless supply of organic material for my compost needs, and it's great. At the same time, I kick myself for all the times I bagged the oak leaves and pine straw from my oak and pine trees and set them out on the curb for city pick up. Never again though!

Very informative, thank you😀

What if you get mold in your compost pile, can you still use it?

As always you have given us all a hugely helpful video full of things every gardener needs to know!!!! Thank you Luke!!!

I have blueberries i recently planted and a large white pine at the other end of my property that sheds quite a few pine needles. I gathered clumps of pine needles and mulched my blueberries with them. Would that be the best way to take advantage of their acidic effects or should I compost them first?

Very good and informative video, thank you. I learning to do my own compost and please just keep it coming. God bless you.

This was very informative I have 18 black walnut trees in my yard mostly in the front and along 1 side of the house. Naturally my garden is in the back corner farthest corner I never composted any of those leaves but now I will. Thanks for the explanation. I hate those miserable trees.

Luke..thank you..thank you...thank you. we have been having a hissy fit making sure not one speck of our walnut tree has made it into the compost. we've had the downed branches and leaves removed from our property in an attempt to make sure it doesnt affect our garden beds with that enzyme. I can sleep better tonight. You're a lifesaver.

Do you use fern in composting ? I wanna to use it, is it good Idea ? 🤝

Thank you. I'm definitely into composting. What about pine needles?

Oh my goodness! I have used egg shells in my garden for years. I even grind then to powder to use in my garden with great results. I've never heard of this myth. I'm surprised that people would think they are harmful.

@wytwabit

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you mentioned that. I've been saving eggshells from free-range hens, planning to crush them and add to the soil. It should be a decent source of calcium.

@siege919

4 жыл бұрын

I saved a ton and made them powder and and added them to my new raised beds. saving more to throw as mulch along with last years leaves and coffee grounds

@panpluto13

4 жыл бұрын

I've been doing this as well .

@glyndagiles5697

4 жыл бұрын

@@siege919 I use coffee grounds, too. I even throw the paper filter into my compost bin.

@wytwabit

4 жыл бұрын

@@glyndagiles5697 My husband used to bury his coffee grounds and banana peels around his rose bushes. The roses were beautiful, and a neighbor even came by to ask how he was getting such beautiful results.

Great information. Thanks.

My dog does her business in the front yard. Should I put the leaves I rake from the front yard in my compost or to the curb?

thank you for your helpful tips!

Would love to hear a good talk on composting. I hate turning stuff repeatedly. I just dig a trench between my rows and full the trench and cover it with dirt. Leaving it until fall.

@christinemccoy4471

4 жыл бұрын

florida palms Been doing the same for years. Awesome. I did not like compost piles

I make leaf mulch. Maple in one pile, Oak in another. Maple pile can be used the following season. Oak takes longer to break down. Great Video Thanks for sharing

@charliemaddox3226

4 жыл бұрын

A very detailed study of the breakdown rates between maple leaves and oak leaves (in a stream) was done by Auburn University in 2015. Among many other things they noted Maple leaves have more Nitrogen, and there oak leaves have a higher lignin content (very slow to breakdown).

@marksieber4626

Жыл бұрын

One of the most anal retentive things I’ve ever heard of.

Sorry if I missed it in the video but can pine needles be used as a mulch and not composted? I'm assuming yes but asking to be sure.

Thanks for the info. I live in South Louisiana & have an over abundance of Spanish moss can this be composted down to add to my garden?

I love this. Going to go check out the first one.

If I got some poison ivy leaves and vines mixed in with my last year's compost, do I need to scrap that compost?

I've been composting eggshells whenever I have a pile. I never heard of the salmonella thing, but it's good to know it's okay to do it. But remind me, Why am I composting eggshells again? Is it for the Calcium? If so, what does the Calcium do? Would shellfish shells work?

I put a raw egg in the base of the hole when I plant my tomatoes....they love it the calcium helps stop end rot

Hello there. A question from the northwest. Can I add moss to the compost pile?

Does killing weeds with vinegar affect compost ir future plants?

@noroses4you

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doubtful, vinegar is okay to compost as long as you aren't drowning in it

Fascinating! Thanks!

Thanks for these clarifications.

I've been cleaning and microwaving all of my eggshells before putting them in a container and once I have a bunch, I put them in a small food processor and make them into powder, then add THAT to my compost. Maybe I don't need to do all of that? I was actually wondering about 1 compost additive that I've heard to not add to your compost, BUT, I have been. Citrus peels. I have been adding some to my compost. I have some mini oranges that I add all of the time, BUT, when my mom eats an orange, I do sometimes add the peels to my compost, BUT, sometimes I lay off adding it so that I don't have TOO many citrus peels in my compost. So, do you think that orange peels are too tough or whatever to add to compost?

Would this apply also to Horse Chestnut leaves as well? . I’ve seen where they don’t recommend to compost them either.

Luke, this was so helpful, thank you. If you’re looking for ideas on videos what about elaborating more on mycorrhizae in the soil. What are they, how to feed them, life span, function, relationship to roots in the ground..

Hi! Can I throw expired dried pasta in my compost pile? I have 3 boxes of pasta I never used. Is it safe to throw it in the compost pile? Thanks!

Can you compost grass or other plants which have powdery mildew on them?

Is it ok to compost cardboard?

are pecan shells, wood, leaves, nuts, ok for the compost?

Hi Luke. I live in an apartment with a yard but my landlord does not allow for an messy compost station - so I compost in several 20 gallon storage bins that I have punctured with hundreds of tiny holes all over the sides of for air circulation. I fill the bin(s) with fall leaves, weekly kitchen scraps and wet the soil with weekly waterings - and I turn the soil every 2 weeks. Is this manner of composting a waste of my time?