WWIII Victory Garden: Tom Bartels Shares the Secret to Leaf Compost

Some very basic Hellen and Scott Nearing information, authors of "The Good Life". Read it.

Yeap, the climate is always changing.

What company did you get 10 yards for 265 dollars that is such a good deal for quality composte

Lots of great information, thanks!

Can you use any leaves...I have grape vines and aspens?

Is there anything leaf farms around south SLC?

Thanks for sharing this, even though I've been making and using compost in my gardens for over 40 years there was something I'd not heard before. The benefit of composting in such a way to shift the mycelium to bacteria ratio to be close to 1:1, which will reduce the weed population. Great to know.

Okay provident preppers, I do many things not so good but I do put my grass clippings and I bury my kitchen waste. So I do a little bit right. Oh, when it rains and I see worms on the cement, I pick up the wiggly things and give them a home in my garden. We are all learning.

Doggonnit, youre in my head AGAIN, lol. Last spring, I cobbled together an 8 foot (-ish) diameter enclosure with green metal tee posts and chicken wire, and have been dumping leaves (mostly from my neighbor's trees over the fence--I'll take 'em!) and kitchen veggie scraps into the corral. Zero rain (and I do mean zero, as in no rain), so its not as wet as it should be, but its a good 4 foot tall mound. I'll give it a good soaking and then buy in some wigglers for it. Thanks for the guidance!

Got it! Thanks

What do you do with the garden vines and plants at the end of the growing season? Can they be composted?

Does adding coffee grinds to the pile add nitrogen to the carbon dominant leaves?

Think "Long Emergency," not WW3. WW3 is likely to be the Long Emergency: a long series of skirmishes fought over petroleum and other natural resources. The Big One is not out of the question, but I doubt it will occur.

You lost me with your climate change
Is Albert gore your hero???

Adding oxygen will give you results in about 9-10 months

do you recommend turning the leaf piles during the 1-1.5 year period to get the dry top leaves mixed in ?

im down with them soil nerds..
Your On Point Yo
Layer in some peanut hay soaked with mollases. minerals and the sugars input both macro and micro inputs

Thank you this was inspiring and educational!

World War 3 ?

Tom mentions that he has a pile of shredded leaves to the side, but doesn't mention how they are different from whole leaves. Do they break down faster and if so, how much faster?

Great video, I need to get going in my composting

Where do you get your worms?
What kind of worms?
I seldom see worms in my soil.
I did find one two weeks ago when I was planting a plant.
I dug it out with soil.
I noticed it was all twisted like a candy cane.
Is that normal?

What about tree seeds in the leaves?

The best equipment I ever purchased was a used commercial diesel powered mower with a blower and hamper to collect grass clippings or leaves. It has a hydraulic dump so now I am able to collect all the leaves that fall from the poplars and other trees on my property and put them in piles right where I will use them.

Great way to show us

Thank you, very useful info. I will contact my arborist for leaves. My country collects leaves via roadside vacuum, then contracts their composting out to a business, who then sells the leaf mulch. Good business if you can do it.

I bypass the composting part, and every fall put about 6 inches of leaves on the garden, zero turn shread them down in place, and water the garden or wait for a good rain. Then till them in. You must till about 3 times through the winter or it may be a little rough in spring, but nonetheless I have wonderful vegetables without ever adding commercial fertilizer.

Using comfrey

I’m away from home this fall, caring for an elder in-law. I have permission to start a compost pile, so I loaded the leaves off the driveway, add my daily coffee grounds, kitchen scraps, egg shells, and occasional collected urine (no meds!) to the leaf pile. Covered with hail screen and cattle panel to prevent scavengers and blowing. Fortunately we are getting a little moisture. Will probably run the push mower over the pile before long and turn it. Will dig down a little to add some dirt into the pile as I re-heap it. This will probably go on top of the soil this year for anything I manage to plant, but will start another pile and collect all I can from the neighborhood for the coming year. Can get a little chicken shoo from my local egg lady to add for the bacteria benefit. Will try to locate worms and get a bin going along with the pile. A few greens going in pots on the porch, because there is no fence and this yard in a packed neighborhood is the size of a postage stamp after all the little bldgs that were added. Regrowing my cabbage cores and celery hearts in the empty flower pots.😁

"re-purpose" is NOT A VALID WORD. YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE: YOU CAN ONLY RE-USE or RE-CYCLE.

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I don’t see any food growing😂

Your voices are abrasive with ear buds… when the video went to Tom Bartel, his voice was smooth and easy. Something to look into maybe.

We have a 10x12 compost pile under a big ole red maple and silver maple, also have 2 compost piles out the back porch for regular veg scraps and citrus kitchen scraps 6' x 6' I used kit compost for our garden vegs and the leaf compost for our fruit trees. Very straight forward video

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Will this kill crab grass? How soon can you replant afterwards?

I have a crazy amount of worms in my kitchen compost pile and worm bin so will be adding them to the leaf mould leaves. I already add coffee grounds to the leaves to give them a boost breaking down.

Thank you, Sir.

Whom do you call to get the free leaves from please and thank you ❤️😊. Thanks for the video

Have you had problems with poison ivy leaves or vines I gotta stay away from that stuff.

worms love used coffee grounds , put that on your pile , they will come ... all of them will come

Where do you get your worms?

Question - lots of people spray herbicides on their lawns under their trees; with the rain, won't this stuff make its way down and be uptaken by the tree roots, and in turn, get into the leaves?

Was going to suggest to suggest tarps as well. Worms don't live in 90 degrees; they migrate to 70 degrees. So as explained is great for future gardening plot, because there all ready worms in the soil.
So how do I access this organic matter that city people don't compost?

Can manure be used instead of "dirt"?

In 22014 I composted (or buried in soil) food waste including meat for about a year and have not touched it since. . Do you think that pile could be used as compost this year?

Hi I love your video and your education teaching is wonderful I'm new to gardening I know nothing but I'm worried about all this nutrition from the leaves is that not going to grow a whole area of weeds and then I'd have to go out and pull all those weeds out of the leaves that sounds like a lot of work but I don't see any weeds while you're sitting. could you explain about weeds growing in the compost area please. thank you thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I want to be a successful Gardener. I just want to spend the rest of my life learning and growing my own food and being self-sufficient thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤

Good stuff

I mix then with coffee grounds ( the only non organic material since I collect it from coffee shops) some comfrey, some nettles and some yarrow. I keep all that in those BigBags from animal feed and after 6 months I use it as mulch. It gets very hot now in winter and by march is packed with earthworms. It works miracles on my vegetables and my orchard