HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN COMPOST (This Took only TWO MONTHS!)

Don't have enough compost? Me either! So we grew some!

Do you need to make compost? Do you need to know how to make LOTS of compost? Here's our method - we grow cover crops and turn them into compost! Some of the roots stay in the ground, making compost beneath the soil. The tops we can cut and mound into compost piles, building humus for the gardens.

This cover crop includes mung beans, sorghum-sudan grass, black-eyed peas and sunn hemp. It fixes nitrogen and gives us lots of carbon. Cover cropping can fix bad soil, and can be grazed by animals to build topsoil fast - or you can till it under and garden the area. Making fast compost doesn't even need a pile. All you need is a handful of seeds to plant a cover crop!

[davidthegood]

Forgive the weird lens - we had an issue with the aperture and recorded two videos before fixing it! Too late now, so enjoy the awesome vintage blur.

[RoyatAvalonFarms]

Compost everything. I really like that idea. We need to compost some congressmen 🤣

[danfay]

David the Good Restoring the worlds soil one rental property at a time!!

[k.p.]

HA- I'm on the right track. I saw this a year ago, bought the seeds, and stuck them aside. Yesterday, I was looking for something else and found the bag..YESSSS! I am cleaning out my beds and I'm exhausted from battling bugs and slugs. So, today, I planted 3 beds of peas, sunn hemp and dwarf sunflowers. Shooo! Let her go, feed my beds and give myself a rest! Thanks, David.

[dalemulert]

Sun Hemp is an excellent cover crop on its own, and you can walk on it to knock it down. I started with a machete, but in my haste to cut them down, I started stepping on them and realized they were breaking off nicely, so I just walked them down to use as compost. Sun Hemp and cowpeas are my go-to summer cover crop. I really appreciate the Florida garden advice. Thank you

[yx]

I grew a cover crop and then did a chop and drop in a container and it produced incredible results. I am sold on this!

[Johnnysday]

Growing the cover crop is only half the battle. The most important step is how do you incorporate that biomass into the soil profile. The best way is to do it’s called heat composting. Basically, you roll the crop over on its side with a big roller that has some sharp edges on it. The sharp edges book crimp the vascular bundles in allowed to drive to decompose over the winter. You leave the heat compost on the soil surface and plant through it this means, you separate the biomass or make a small pathway and plant the seed directly into the untilled soil. If you rototill the biomass back into the soil you will have caused a major disruption in the soil microflora. organic matter is never tilled into the soil as that is an artificial measure.

[sonnyamoran]

Glad to see you. Praying life is thornless blackberries for you and the family.

[tradermunky]

"That's a lot of life."

Let's kill it for compost... (evil laugh)

[AmzBackyardOrchardandVineyard]

I'm so happy to be one of your subscribers. I'm a long time fan. You share tips and tricks that are practical and actually work! We have been using your methods for the past few years and have great success even here in Arizona Growing zone 9B. CHEERS!

[wardrobelion]

My cover crop this summer was clump grass 🤣🤣🤣. I couldn’t get out for about a week during that heatwave and then the rain started🙄. It was 4 ft. tall in 2 weeks. But, on the bright side, it saved my sweet potatoes and Seminole pumpkin vines from the scorching 🥵 sun and they are finally recovering. It was so hot that my purple hull and white acres even died(my cover crop)! I’m praying 🙏 that my winter crops will do better. Thanks for the encouragement.

[rosehavenfarm]

We're calling "do over" on one of our growing beds, it's about 30x30.
Most likely going to cover crop it for a whole year, then probably put in a two- or three-terrace grocery row garden.

Thanks for the information and inspiration.

[judymiller]

So amazing what partnering with Nature can do !! You inspire me!

[GarrettXHolder]

It’s all fun and games until your pulling cowpeas out of your pear tree. This topic is great and could make a whole series

[JoelNisly]

I've done something similar with Matt Powers' 5 cousins, which are all edible: Sorghum, amaranth, daikon, buckwheat and cowpeas.

[tammykaltreider]

Great to see you! Cover crop’s already in.

[transwomenaresexistmen]

What a pleasure it is to hear your awesome songs. Ridiculous 😎 👍

[leomiranda-castro]

Great technique. We just put our new home at out homestead. It is at the top of a little slope. We made some swales to control erosion of our sandy dirt. Then we planted sweet potatoes at the berm. I will try some legumes too. So far I'm very pleased with the cover crop and looking forward to the sweet potatoes!

[williamodell]

Thanks David for all the gardening help here in Florida. I live in central Florida and like most of Florida I have sand, sand and more sand. Along with your cover crop information I also started using Biochar at the same time. I am blessed with lots of water oaks so I get lots of wood for Biochar and tons of leaves for Leave mold compost for my garden. Leaf mold compost, Biochar and cover crops have made a huge difference in my sandy soil. Thanks to you and your Florida growing information My sand now looks more like soil than sand.
Many Thanks for your efforts.

[sardar]

Oh, I am cover cropping now with rye grass and clover. Compost is the gateway drug to covercropping. Great subject that isn't put out there very much. Thanks for getting the info out there (and being entertaining too)