Questions about compost include what is the best time to spread it, does it leach nutrients, how much to use each year, does it make bed level keep rising, what are the differences between purchased composts and homemade – and is manure compost?
I use my garden and samples of different composts to answer these questions. The timings are here.
Timecodes
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Best time to spread, it’s not fertiliser, does not leach nutrients
02:55 How much compost to spread
05:45 Why the soil level barely rises
06:40 How much compost per 1/16 acre allotment
09:00 TYPES 1 Homemade compost
10:00 2 Green waste / municipal compoost
10:55 3 Fresh horse manure
12:00 Difference between hay and straw
13:00 4 Old horse manure
13:30 5 Old wood chip, and new
14:40 Three month old homemade compost still hot
This is my earlier Compost Making Q & A video, November 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIV4lljN6Aw
Find out more in module 5 of my first online course, all about making and using compost, and how it improves soil https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/online-course-1-no-dig-gardening-module-5/
See my July 2020 You Tube video about making compost, balancing green and brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtMsEylZvqw
This about using compost and cardboard to clear soil of weeds https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=IC6OBOyQ0mY
And this quick explanation about using compost in no dig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJhGIrqKs1k
Filmed and edited at Homeacres on 8th November 2020, by Edward Dowding my son.
Homeacres is a no dig, market and teaching garden in zone 8, temperate oceanic climate in the UK, latitude 51N.
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