Composting Grass Clippings and Shredded Leaves

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Tony ran a case study, composting only grass clippings and shredded leaves together to show how to make compost in a simple, practical way. Connect With Tony O'Neill: Tony O’Neill is the founder of Simplify Gardening, a blog, YouTube channel, and the author of the upcoming book Composting Masterclass: Feed The Soil Not Your Plants. Buy this book on: Amazon UK Bookstore US Bookstore AUS Bookstore Simplify Gardening YouTube Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you want a interesting summary of making compost holistically, then I think this
0:20.5	episode will be really interesting.
0:22.0	Tony O'Neill is back on the podcast founder of Simplify Gardening, author of the book,
0:26.0	Composing Masterclass.
0:27.6	So Tony, actually some of the videos of yours that I've bingeed the most have been your
0:33.3	leaf mold videos.
0:34.8	I know that's not exactly what we're talking about in today's episode.
0:37.3	Maybe we'll get into that later this week.
0:39.2	But this one's all about an experiment that you ran on.
0:43.0	I believe just making compost from grass clippings and leaves alone, right?
0:46.5	No other inputs?
0:47.8	Yeah.
0:48.8	So I did, I made a case study if you like, based on these just two ingredients to try and
0:56.8	explain to people why the carbon to nitrogen and the moisture are so important.
1:03.0	And this sort of gets them to understand how it's worked out.
1:07.2	Now, during the actual study, there are some calculations which will be a little bit
1:12.3	awkward to explain here, but they are detailed out in my book.
1:19.0	But essentially, I did this study on using high nitrogen grass clippings and high carbon
1:27.6	content for leaves.
1:29.6	And four factors are worth noting here.
1:33.3	The first is to avoid anaerobic conditions which we've spoken about.
1:37.9	The moisture content of the material in the compost pulse should be less than 60%.
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