The Art of Lazy Composting | How to Make High-Quality Compost the Simple Way

Lazy composting. It is my favourite way to make fantastic homemade compost and is perfect for anyone looking for a simple way to make compost in your own vegetable gardens. backgardens or allotments. Whilst methods like hot composting have their benefits, they often need a lot of intensive work in a short space of time, as well as a lot of ingredients all in one go. Lazy composting is far more accessible for homegrowers and there is only one simple rule you need to follow when it comes to adding things to your compost bin.

This video is suitable if you're a beginner looking up 'how to make compost' as well as seasoned gardeners who are after a more 'no rules composting method' to follow. I am sharing the composting technique we have been using for over 15 years to make fantastic homemade compost for our permaculture kitchen garden.

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Green Materials:
Used coffee grounds & plastic-free teabags
Unseeded weeds
Fruit & veg scraps
Lawn clippings
Horse & cow manure
Finished plants/plant tops
Comfrey & Nettles
Seaweed
Spent brewery grain if you have a local brewers
Hair clippings from the barber

Brown materials:
Dust from vacuuming
Cardboard & newspaper
Wood chippings & sawdust
Autumn leaves
Hay & straw
Autumn & winter prunings
Pine needles
Woodash
Tissues

Both:
Pet bedding from herbivores

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 What to Expect
1:02 What is Compost?
1:14 Size of bin needed
1:54 Greens and Browns
2:22 Grass Clippings Tip
2:57 Adding Ingredients the Lazy Way
3:49 The One Rule
5:04 When a bin is full
6:29 When is Compost Ready?
7:30 A Note on Rats
8:20 How Many Bins to Have

#compost #permaculture #kitchengardening

[HuwRichards]

Just wanted to let you know that every video I now upload has correct captions, rather than the terrible Youtube automated captions. This is due to popular request from viewers who aren't native English speakers, as well as others who have hearing impairments. I hope you enjoy the video😀

[Normandy_Mike]

Apart from being helpful, these films are just so damned well produced. I worked in TV & I know how much work goes into this. Kudos to you & your camera operator & editor 👍🏻

[davidchester]

My office shreds paper all the time. I take bags of that home. Mixed with kitchen scraps it produces great compost

[mustafabrennpaste]

I just throw all on it that I have. No order, no rules and yet I still get a good fine compost and my plants love it.

[Kiyarose]

I don’t have a garden so I do my composting in a Black plastic Dustbin on my balcony, so most of what goes into it is kitchen scraps. I started the compost off by adding old Soil from some Flower pots, then gradually built it up over two years. Now I have a second Black plastic Dustbin( found them both in skips) that I’ve got half full. I have a small area where I can get away with growing food crops in pots, so I’ve been using the compost for those. Because the compost is 95% kitchen scraps it makes the compost a bit damp, so it doesn’t get hot enough to kill seeds, which I like cos then I get all sorts of fruits etc growing out of my pots. So far I’ve got a Grape Vine seedling, Apple and Cherry Tree saplings,

[wyominghome]

I actually discovered this years ago in California when I forgot about a pile of leaves and yard waste at the back of the yard. By the next spring when I finally got back to gardening I stumbled upon it and discovered it was all compost...all by itself!

[stephaniezeh]

The noises in this video make me so excited to get back in the garden.

[cattschrist]

I really appreciate the recommendation and explanation for 3 compost bins! It seems so simple, but, as a beginning gardener, the idea had eluded me, and I was struggling to understand how to eventually have finished compost when I was regularly adding content to my single compost pile. Thank you!

[LegumesEtFleurs]

I have been lazy composting since I started gardening here in France. Tomorrow I will be completely emptying the compost bin, with all the wormies. Lol. They all go to the new flower bed I am preparing for Spring. I should ask my 6 year old daughter to “jump in” the compost. She will be more happy to do it. 😁

[Christinahello]

I love hearing the intro 🥺. “Hello, and a very warm welcome.” Love it

[ChuckUnderFire]

That camera is just never gonna compost. But I loved the intro!

[innerstream]

This is the first “ jump on it” compost video I’ve seen! Love it! Great vid as always Huw! Thank you!

[jasonn]

This is now my most favorite gardening channel. video quality is amazing, and everything is explained so well and easy to understand. Thank you so much, can’t wait to learn more.

[Liz-lpms]

Huw, you're too much fun :) I wish you were my neighbor here in Texas. I have greatly benefitted from watching your videos. Your efforts in sharing your pearls of wisdom are truly appreciated. Thank you!!!!

[valium-fm]

Years ago I was given a top tip to get your compost going and help it break down the matter quicker . The guy told me - collect your. “first P” of the day and pour it over the compost. Something about enzymes and other big words. It works a treat. I’ve done a comparison and the one that had the “first P” did a lot better than the compost that didn’t.

[simplifygardening]

Great tips on composting Huw. This time of year there is a lot of green matter while we are cleaning our gardens.

[EMSpdx]

Thank you! For those of us with smaller urban yards, the Dalek type compost bins are all we have space for; but now I will try to design a bin with wooden boards that will give the same sort of area space for heating up and breaking down garden matter.

[joshcook]

Its nice to hear someone who knows what they are doing and why they do it

[venpeddapalli]

The reason you see rich compost in the forests is because every Saturday morning a mysterious guy comes over and turns over the precise mix of 50-50 greens and browns with a big fork.

[TexasHomesteaders]

I compost the same way. Some people seem to like to make it complicated. Glad to see I am not alone.