Johnson Su Bioreactor Build! Why Is This A Superior Compost?

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[jefschobert]

I added vented tubes to my compost pile and was surprised on how fast the stuff decomposed, full of Earthworms too.

[deppurple]

Why cant more u tube tutorials be more like you bro right to the point and good speaker thanks

[tnxokyo]

If any of you have oak trees or other nut trees that u don't harvest I've found putting the nuts through the chipper makes an amazing mulch & seed starter medium. I found if I store the whole nuts in a garbage can (do not cover) w holes drilled for water drainage it makes a richer compost from the fungi & seeds that sprouted

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0:00 Start
2:00 Reactor materials
2:35 Background
3:42 Reactor build
8:24 Compost Ingredients
10:44 Vital step (don't miss)

[gracebug]

Loved seeing your Border Collie rounding up the chickens! Our Border Collie used to round up our children when they were on their swings swinging and every so often nip at their behinds! Great dog for a homestead. Thank you for this information. Seems easy to put together.

[mikaellindqvist]

Great system. Never saw the need to add worms. They move in without any help even in my rotating tumbler composts sitting 1m above ground. Apperantly the climb the metal pipes it stands on or gets in threw materials put in. But as soon as cools down they are there by the thousands year after year. Thats how i got worms gor my wintertime indoors wormbins.

[garys]

PVC pipes with small holes drilled in them, lay horizontally on the ground, glue them together with fittings culminating in a air hose fitting outside the pile. Fill with leaves, etc, then once a month. use an air compressor to blast air into the pipes and in turn aerating the pile. That's the Jackson Lu composteractor!

[PlantGuild]

Very well done video, thank you. I’ve only recently dived more into the Johnson-Su process and watching Dr. Johnson’s presentation to CSU was all I needed to hear to be a believer. Everyone interested in composting should definitely check it out.

[JustinMentionedIt]

Why not put a big mesh wire in the middle of a regular compost pile and just leave it? Would allow lots of air in

[Texasx]

Great stuff here...and I love the border collie doing laps around the chicken coop in the background at 7:45.. lol

[Doc]

We built our main compost out of wood pallets on 3 sides and lined the inside with chicken wire.
Yes we have to turn our pile.

[markprescott]

I have 3 of these built with slightly different materials. I use 6 foot tall fencing for the stabilisation of the inner and outer ring. I use poultry netting(chicken wire on the inside of the outer ring, and on the outer side of the inner ring. This is my first year using this design. I used the original Johnson-Su design, and use about 2 5 gallon buckets of this material to start the reaction. This is a good video. Well explained.

[tnxokyo]

I clean my hen house nearly everyday vs twice yr & throw manure, chips, & straw into compost. Reason being I built a 16x12 full wall giving herbs 4x12 & rest is my tools & work bench that doesn't smell. I layer with leaves, kitchen scraps, & garden clippings. My chicken r always in the compost foraging which helps break material down & constantly turning

[Zayskibop]

I enjoyed the composter

I enjoyed the dog running around the chickens even more 😂

[craigriglin]

I took a bunch of leaves in a large garbage bags watered them waited a couple of months and got a really good fungal growth. After that I mix it with my compost, and it was amazing the growing results of the plants they really took off. The leaf size was about three times as large as Other plants in the yard

[charlesdavaro]

I built one years ago best compost I ever made. Worth the hassle but make it 4 times bigger and fill it with a backhoe 😊 use 4 inch perforated pipe too only took 3 months wet wood chips / wet leaves

[cosmicbackwoods]

I landscaped here in Abilene for 20 years and about 19.5 of that was removing Bermuda from beds lol. im gonna try this method eventually, thanks for the tips

[commonsgiant]

Another great video brother. Had the same thing happen this fall when I was putting the garden to bed. My tiller smokes like crazy, but works...until it didn't. Started with air, then gas, then spark...plug was covered with black crud. Wire brush and back in business. I have made a conscious effort to learn how to fix anything that breaks. The last 5 years has been a great education.

[Isaacmantx]

at 7:53 I see your collie has run a literal racetrack around the coop out of obsession. We have a GSP that did the same thing in our back yard. Obsessively running the same thing over and over from not being used for the job, at the intensity required, that hundreds of years of breading put into his DNA. We got him on an SSRI med (think Prozac) and he is a TOTALLY different dog. It took some convincing for our vet, as they wanted to keep prescribing sedatives, but after 6 weeks or so for the med to stabilize his obsession he completely stopped running his circuit. He still enjoys the birds, squirrels, and lizards he originally ran that circuit looking for... but he doesn't have to obsessively run the circuit anymore. TOTALLY different, and MUCH happier dog. Just in case it helps!

[Raul]

Someone used the word "utilize" correctly~!!!! KUDOS FOR GOOD Most people don't use the word "utilize" correctly because they think it means the same as the word "use." It does not. Good for you~!!