Timestamped: (click timestamp to jump to a specific tip) Learn how to make easy compost at home! This beginner-friendly video walks you through the basics of composting for both small and large gardens. Learn the what materials to use, how to set up your compost bin, how to maintain it, and tips for success. You’ll learn everything you need to create beautiful, fertile nutrient-rich compost to feed your garden.
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00:00 Composting with Gary & CaliKim Intro
00:52 Easy cold compost bins
02:14 Composting for small gardens – 2 bin method
03:54 Moisture for microbes is key
03:59 Fruit fly tip
04:26 Composting in trash cans- 2 bin method
04:32 Drainage, drainage, drainage
05:37 Moisture guideline
06:30 Turning for speedier breakdown
07:22 Growing plants in compost
08:35 When compost is ready to use
08:57 Compost with grass clippings
09:42 Example of finished compost
11:52 Compost tumblers for small gardens
13:36 Compost with wooden pallets
13:59 Roof mistake
14:13 3 station pallet composting
15:04 Easy, cheap compost bin gate
15:41 Compost in the space you have
15:50 Just get started
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I want to make compost and it looks so good.
Can you add coffee grounds to your compost to help with moisture along with adding water to inclosed compost
This is awesome Kim thank you for sharing this. I'm just a little confused about the pallet composting. Did he add any dirt or organic soil to the compost? Or did he just add grass clippings and leaves? I'm new to composting that's why I'm asking. I've never composted before, so I'm a new born lol
Excellent video on composting. I can never get enough info and reminders on the subject. Thank you both so much 🎉🎉🍅
Great video
Great tips! What makes a compost a hot or cold compost? Can you keep adding to your compost or do you just fill it and forget it for a couple of years?
We have multiple compost piles. We do WAY better with leaf compost than kitchen scraps, but we do both. And it does take awhile, but when we do 'harvest' the compost, it's full of great stuff. For us – middle Tennessee – leaves from our trees works best for 'immediate' compost. We use it to put around our trees, bushes, beds that won't see anything until spring. But the BIG compost bed – gets all the good stuff, but takes longer.
Your compost is years old. I just started composting, will I be able to use in my garden this Fall and Winter.
Thank you Kim.
Definitely have begun to compost.
I’m four years into gardening and I’ve made let’s see 10 yards or 10 ft.³ of compost and it probably took me two years this year. I’m doing something different. Said I need to go back to making compost, but I don’t have a spot or I’m gonna put it, but I need to get that started. I’m doing where I make the veggie scraps dig a hole in the garden and put it in the rice bed. I’ve done it a couple times and it seems to be working, but I need to make my own compost again I was successful and it was beautiful and it’s just so, it’s just I just haven’t done it yet. I need my compost maybe trash cans or something.🌱🌱🌱
Can you use grass cuttings because the grass is treated with chemicals for bugs
Jumping worms!!!
JW's are spreading throughout the united states, one major way is in the improper handling of compost.
Cold compost, resting hot compost, and leaf mold bins are magnets for JW's.
If you use these composted materials as a potting mix or seed starter as I do, you could potentially spread them.
I have had to drastically change the way I make compost and leaf mold.
Mother nature always has a curve ball up her sleeve, although JW's are not native to North America. Being aware of any invasive specie is up to anyone who gardens, ignorance is not bliss.
Stay Well!!!!
2 years ago I bought a Smart Pot compost bag. We began filling it with scraps and then added shredded paper and coffee grounds from Starbucks. That quickly filled and I added a second bag. We water them and “stir” them every week or so and as a result, we have 100 gallons of compost ready every 2 or 3 months as we alternate the bags. Maybe it’s our Texas heat, but the rapid breakdown is amazing.
Thank you. This has been on my bucket list and didn’t realize how easy it was!
Calikim you're so beautiful and humble! You truly maintain your beauty over the years.
Kim you're so beautiful and humble! You truly maintain your beauty over the years that I have been watching your channel.
God bless you more!
The collaborations + Livestreams are awesome. The compost video was the 1st one originator! I use the lazy compost in a half wine barrel It works. Bless you All Please keep up the collabs! ❤