Hey there, Kevin Espiritu from Epic Gardening.

We are talking today about the concept of cold composting.

So for the lazy man or lazy woman out there who wants to compost but doesn't want to turn it

Doesn't want to deal with worms and just wants to slowly let things decompose

This is the method for you. This is in fact the method that I use in my

front yard garden because I really don't turn my what's supposed to be a hot compost bin all too often. I just use it as a place to accumulate

bits of food scraps or yard debris etc and slowly over time it actually does

break down. Funally enough, I've actually just now harvested yesterday a handful of compost potatoes.

Potatoes that I had thrown in the cold compost pile that eventually did sprout and grow and then I decided

I wanted to start turning that compost again so I harvested them and it was really fun to dig

through my cold compost pile and harvest.

I think I got maybe two or three pounds of potatoes out of that for truly no work.

I didn't even try to plant them.

And it's surprising to me how quickly and how vigorously potatoes

grew in not that much soil. I mean there really wasn't a lot of soil in there.

It was food scraps, it was grass clippings and sticks and twigs a lot of

open air and the potatoes developed perfectly fine so that was a really

interesting experiment but if you want to create a cold compost pile couldn't be easier.

It's organic materials, leaves, grass clippings,

soil, manure, just don't put any pet waste

and don't put any human waste in there.

And what you'll want to do in a perfect world is bury the kitchen scraps,

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