Seriously Upgrade Your Garden (Do This To Your Compost!) with Noah Sanders

Welcome to another episode of the Pantry Chat. This week we have Noah Sanders from @RedeemingtheDirtNoahSanders with us to help us troubleshoot common compost problems.

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[dmtvnle]

Compost for us has been lawn trimmings, fall leaves, and a bit of chicken bedding. I'm lazy and don't mix often enough, so I doubt it gets terribly hot. Add chicken bedding in spring, then the rest of it the rest of the year, and spread the pile the following spring. Turns black each time and is full of worms, so no complaints.

[deborahjoyvalentine]

Living in typical American homes, eating from the franchised food supply, w e have lost so much information about basic natural survival on Earth. I am so thankful for all the info we are rediscovering. Thank you for sharing.

[sandralafond]

Josh, thank you so much for this podcast. We live in the burbs. Nice sized lot, but still limited. We've been static composters for years, but we're amping up our gadens, and need more ammending, now. I'm intrigued by the idea of vermicomposting, and will be looking into that on Noah's site. Great show!

[ruthcalsada]

This is awesome material and I will watch/listen to it over and over again.

[cynderelli]

Wow, had no idea an Alabamian like him was here.

[kate]

excellent video Josh, thanks. I do not have the land/space availability as you do but I have used a lot of your ideas and knowledge to what I can do. I also have used One Yard Revolution - an impressive gardener in rather cold areas. I mostly just do the static composting, can't turn it anymore, and while it does take longer the end result is still the same. thanks and tell carolyn hello. miss her pleasant teaching ways. oh, I also will take the bones with water in the crock pot for a long time, they break up well and just toss them in the pile. You are a weakth of knowledge Josh and Carolyn thanks so much for all you do and share.

[trulylynn]

Get the Jadam book and you can make your own fertilizer, pesticide and fungicides from nature.

[k.p.]

Ummm, Somebody would be happy campers to come do a compost class in my yard! 😆 I have a 7 year old compost pile in one corner of the yard. From that, this mass of grass has taken hold ( some call it Johnson grass) This grass ( up to 5 feet tall) is spreading like crazy! NOTHING so far has taken it out! Boiling water- HA! I even tried 350 degree oil, neither even wilted it. Maybe I should lay it down and start piling more and more on top of it and let it get super hot just to kill it off....Or get a goat! 😆

[AM-brix]

About 40 minutes in before they get to basics on compost

[jeanpaeth]

Does wood chips steal nitrogen from a raised bed if mixed in...or do we just use it for mulching?

[kimberlyhughes]

An extremely useful tool is a compost thermometer. But how hot is TOO hot? Mine has been 160°F for two days now, so what should i do...or should i just wait it out?

[KumiOriFarm]

What do you think of the Johnson-Su composting method?

[susanbrown]

I don't have the space to make a big pile, I have no animals to bring able to use their manure. I only have a small backyard that I'm trying to make for my small garden

[dravonwalker]

It’d be awesome if you reached out to Matt Powers. He just came out with soil microscopy book focusing on all the life in our soils. He’s a great source of information and he’s entertaining to boot.

[KumiOriFarm]

Question: Since I live in a fairly northern latitude about 48.5N, and most composting material is available later in the growing season, how does one finish compost before the temperature get to freezing?

[cherylanon]

i love the backgound info, but over 9 minutes in, there has been no mention of what the title says....

[ericb]

Thanks for all the wonderful information been doing hot compost for a few years this lets me know that so far I'm on the right track🙂

[smokerise]

They have never given me a problem. I use them for mulch, I also have a compost pile with cleanings from my chicken house, which is a lot of dried pine shavings.
Leaves are free gift, don't burn them, throw them in your mulch pike...you won't regret it. The only "unnatural" thing I mix in my raised beds is 10-10-10 fertilizer I get from home depot.
I live in Georgia, this red clay is not friendly to the small gardener, since I switched to raised beds, I've been very happy with my yields and they are so much easier to maintain.