Composting from start to finish in different types of heap| Including a ground level wormery

Composting from start to finish in different types of heap| Including a ground level wormery
The many ways to make compost!
All are easier when you know the underlying principles, which I explain here.

See the differences between larger heaps which generate and hold much heat, then smaller pallet heaps, and Dalek bins. This is early August 2023.
We finish the tour with a look at my wormery, for potting compost.

00:00 Introduction
00:33 Seven-month-old compost – I spread it on top of a bed, then rake level
02:47 A look at the compost bays in my seven-bay system
03:14 What’s been added to the heaps – browns and greens
04:22 The temperature of heaps, and how you can lessen it
05:30 Adding sieved woodchip to a heap
06:01 Reason for having solid sides to the bays
06:21 Adding sieved soil to the heap
07:06 Another potential brown, the branches of a willow tree
07:27 Another heap, started on 3rd July, and the reason for having plastic on top
07:59 A look at the compost, and why and when to turn it (once only) – an idea of timings
09:30 Another heap, made over the winter, already turned once
09:56 A younger heap of half-decomposed compost, being used for the worms in the wormery
10:49 How we manage these compost bays at this time of year
11:13 A heap covered in black plastic, and a look the organisms underneath
12:30 The wormery – making compost for propagation
13:34 A look under the plastic cover, and what we use to feed the worms
15:26 A summary

My other videos about making compost are in the playlist    • Compost Making  

See my website for written descriptions https://charlesdowding.co.uk/compost-...

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