How To Make Compost - Fast and Easy

Tired of waiting for your compost to be ready? It can sometimes take years...
unless you know these tricks of the trade which will rapidly increase the speed of your composting, so that you can make lots of compost FAST!

In this week's episode, Ben explains how composting works and demonstrates how to go about it the best way to get the results you desire as well as building a basic compost heap that you can make for free!
More compost = More plants = More food!

For more videos on composting, watch these next:

How to Make a Compost Bin from Pallets

Supercharge Your Compost Heap

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[preciousmetalhead]

30 years ago punk and metal shows were one of my favorite things…..now, composting videos. 🤘🏻🌱🤘🏻

[hhaimetuber]

I’m speechless… the best most informative and explanatory composting video out there

[gugushabangu]

The passion in this video is everything for me! Thank you for keeping your page alive just from you doing what you love while educating all of us.

[Freespirit]

your videos are perfect combination of knowlege, clarity and humour and theyre not too long, thank you!

[FireflyOnTheMoon]

This is hands down the best compost vid on youtube. The best basic guide.

[ushik]

I love your channel. You have a very charming personality. Your enthusiasm and passion for gardening clearly shines through and always gets me in the mood to get out there and try things out.

I've been growing tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, lettuce, carrots, peppers, strawberries, beans and even melons which I couldn't have done without inspiring people like you. So thank you very much for being such an inspiration. Keep up the good work.

[jamestutanekai]

This is one of the best composting videos on the internet, thank you.

[jdearr]

A really good idea to have that soil thermometer. Fine tuning the temp can speed the process up even faster. Even if you're not in s super hurry, just observing the temp changes as the biology rises and falls and as the pile is turned over makes for a fantastic lesson that will never fade, along with feeling the spongy pile as you construct it, adding in the fresh manure on a spring day, watching it turn dark dark brown in just weeks. These things bring us closer to the life-giving properties of the soil. Ben is an awesome teacher who knows what it takes to get healthy food into our homes!

[Gemyy]

two months ago me and my girlfiriend moved into my grandmothers cottage and we love it here a week ago she built a compost from old pallets and its starting to get really nice I'm 26 and I'm so proud of myself that I realized that moving out from the city is the way moving forward nice video by the way, I like your channel

[freegirl]

Watching this so I dont have to constantly ask my mother in law what i can and can't throw in the compost. Really neat and helpful, thank you ❤

[modeschar]

We keep a small 2 gallon composter bin on our apartment patio and put clippings from when the complex landscapes (grass clippings and dead leaves), kitchen scraps, and coffee grounds. We put broken up egg shells and minced avocado peels in there too. Every couple days I'll shake the bin to toss the compost inside to get it aerated.

The egg shells work wonders for getting peppers to fruit because of all the calcium in them. We currently have 5 medium sized potted pepper plants and a roma tomato plant that are fruiting.

[abdessamadouajih]

from morocco, i fell in love lately with plants and growing them, i loved ur channel, good explanations and ecofriendly ways

[Sattva]

Excellent video! I was intimidated to start composting and you made it very approachable and understandable.

[clayallen]

I went to a local rabbit rescue outfit and got their bedding from the rabbits, which included rabbit, Poo, hay and pine cubes. It ended up being a really nice compost bin additive, although it seems that the pine cubes are going to be really hard to break down.

[jiggli-Jane]

Your sense of humour is very much appreciated, oh & the compost info is brilliant! Thank you 🤗

[randomlyjessie]

Thank you so much for making this video. You broke it down so perfectly that even a beginner like me can understand and feel confident in making my own!

[mythickun]

Thank you for in-depth explanation about the materials, I've watched some composting video but this is by far the most informative explanation and easy to understand video.

[henkkylltal]

Great video! Love your way of presenting. And yes: I always pee on my compostheaps with great conviction. Not having to flush the toilet so frequently, it also saves a lot of water.

[Pringlesthegamer]

I can't tell if your enthusiasm on this topic is concerning or absolutely awesome

[LeighPogue]

This was by far the best video I’ve see on this subject. Thanks so much.