10 things NOT to COMPOST and WHY

Ever wonder why some things are considered a NO NO for the compost pile? Well, in this vlog we go over 10 things not to add to your compost pile.
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If you all can think of more things not to compost by all means add in the comments!
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1. Dog and cat poo
2. Vegetable or motor oils
3. Glossy paper
4. Synthetic clothing

5. Meat scraps
6. Dairy
7. Fish and Eggs

8. Grass clippings or hay from a yard/field sprayed with herbicides or other chemicals.
9. Diseased/pest-ridden plants
10. Walnut tree debris

[anciskold]

Have you tried bokashi composting? I ferment my vegetable kitchen scrap with bokashi for 15 days then I mix it with old potting soil, let it do it's thing for at least 3 weeks before I put it in a big plastic rain barrel. This way I get really rich compost to add to my garden next spring. Earlier I've spent too much money each year on baged soil/compost but this way I hope to produce a lot of compost during boring winter months in my apartment!

[littlebrookreader]

1. Dog pooh
2. Oils
3. Glossy, silky, plastic covered paper
4. Glass clippings with any type of spray or chemical, including hay.
5. Walnut tree material or clippings of any kind. (Plant inhibitor)
6. Clothing material and ornaments (synthetic)
7. Diseased plant material. No tomato material.
8. Meat scraps of any kind.
❤️❤️❤️ Thank you! Beautiful compost!

[EleanorPeterson]

A suggestion for nervous gardeners: If you have any perennial weeds or diseased plant material at the end of the growing season (tomato and potato plants with blight, for example) and hate the idea of simply throwing such stuff away but are worried about spreading weed seeds and viruses if you recycle it, you can always incinerate it and then sprinkle the sterile ashes onto your compost. The minerals will survive and carry on working for you.

Please note, though, that you'll need quite a lot of material to make incineration worthwhile. Fire will destroy ALL pests, seeds, spores, viruses and diseases but, since plant material is mostly water and empty space, be prepared for that gigantic heap of dead tomato plants or mountain of maize stalks to be reduced to a teeny-weeny pile of (useful) ash! 🙂

[davidl.williams]

The pilgrims nearly starved trying to grow their first food. Indians taught them to use a small fish under every corn hill as they planted the seeds. This saved the lives of many colonists. When I was young and able, I fished a lot and used the raw scrap parts of the fish like the colonists did. It worked quite well without even needing to compost. At 90, I no longer get to fish, but I do compost.

[danweiland]

A very wise old man once taught me to always face your empty wheel barrow in the direction you're going with it when it's full, then you don't have to turn it around when it's full and heavy.

[heatherannekennedy]

I add egg shells to mine - I let them dry in a bucket on the counter and than crush them up before adding them. Sometimes I even make a powder with the dried egg shells in my blender when I think my plants could use a calcium boost!

[homesteadingdaydreamer]

Thank you for the wonderful information!! It warms my heart to see a new garden being prepared. Keep up the amazing work!!

[nursesheris]

I buried fish remains after cleaned and filleted directly in the garden about 2 feet down and they worked lovely!!!

[breeze]

We have a use for all of the personal paperwork to shred. Having found that shredded paper is great for a compost I tried it because it was recommended like coffee grounds. What I've found is the worms love shredded paper and eat every bit of it that's in the middle of the pile. My neighbor gives me chicken manure from his coup and I'll get to check see how that works out next spring. I don't use my compost for my beds because my compost is mainly made up of grass cuttings from bagging lawn clippings. When I throw this into my beds grass begins to grow and I'd have to weed it out. Hate weeding by the way but it is a necessary garden task. So after I filter my compost I spread it back on the lawn because that's where it came from anyways.

[torg]

I've had excellent results composting meat, fats, and oils by keeping them in small doses and running them through a bokashi bucket before adding them to the compost. Bokashi eliminates the odors that attract pests (rats abound and were a problem before I started using bokashi). Of course it has its own distinctive smell, but mine is kind of sweet, and I bury it under a carbon layer: leaves. I'm short good green stock to add the nitrogen component to my piles, so I experimented and found meat scraps help if they aren't concentrated and don't have their 'meaty' odors.

[mickybearden]

Oh I am with ya Lil Bubba...I've taken 2 Breaks already just watchin ya work so hard!!! Whew!!

[milkweed]

Wow, you have a nice pile of nice compost there. Looks bottomless-endless! Nice video!

[elitesless]

I spilled a little old engine oil on the driveway and soaked it up with a nearby bag of organic soil. After it soaked it up for a couple hours I swept it over to a dead patch of yard. It was just old dirt there that hadn’t grown any grass next to the driveway. Now it was a patch of dark soil surrounded by grass. Month later Great was growing. I found that curious

[JakeFromSedrowoolley]

I don't typically comment on videos but you seem to be a genuine feller just looking for feedback. So here goes homie: I personally thought the content was great, good solid info. Obviously most people will be watching for a reason, not just scrolling and trolling... So thanks for sticking to your posted topic. (Lots of rambling wanna be comedians out there) which brings me to my last two thoughts. Thank you for not putting on some Goofy character or silly accent or trying to be a YouTube character or otherwise anything but YOU, doing what you know and enjoy in a chill easy going manner for like-wise minded individuals and randos just looking for something to watch. My one critique would be to not have the music in the background whilst talking. It is enjoyable and kinda goes with the whole gardening theme. It's just hard to pay good close attention to the useful info you're spitting our way, all the while thinking "I think I know this tune".. "Shit what did he say"...rewind... Haha damn ADHD. Music is awesome though. Gotta keep it in the montages without monologues/soliloquies.

[lostpony]

I composted a whole bunch of non-shiny junk mail last year and all winter i picked little envelope windows out of the compost. Forgot about those....

[katherinekinnaird]

Ok that all makes sense. Especially the old tomato vines. Thanks so much. God bless you all 👍🏻👍🏻

[richards]

As others have mentioned, bokashi is a good way to process foods that are normally "do-not-adds" like meat, bones, dairy, oils, etc., allowing you to add the results to your main compost system safely after it's finished fermenting.

[NashvilleMonkey]

The number one thing Not to compost is your only supply of mulch. If you're scratching the bottom of the barrel for organic material, don't strip the ground bare just to fill that barrel. Having a good top layer is far more important and it lasts longer as mulch, and the gain in compost is doubly lost in the wind~

[vmjunnila]

I make compost mainly to dispose waste.
But still i disagree on few things… grass clippings for example; if you work in your own garden and you know its free of toxins and fertilesers then why not…

[martamccool]

Thank you for your advise and clear explanation of the reasons