Composting QA

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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A rapid-fire Q&A session with Tony O’Neill on everything composting. 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 there's a compost question that you have or you've been wondering for a while, hopefully
0:18.2	this episode will clear it up for you.
0:19.6	We have Tony O'Neill back on the show and I'm just going to hit you Tony with some random
0:24.5	questions that I've been wondering and I know some of our listeners have been wondering
0:29.1	and just see what your thoughts are.
0:30.8	Sound good?
0:31.8	Yeah, sounds good to me.
0:33.2	Okay, here's the first one.
0:35.6	Is there is there any composting myth you think you hear all the time?
0:39.8	It's just not true.
0:43.1	Yeah, so I think the biggest one is that composting has to be hard and that people just
0:50.8	can't do it because everybody can compost.
0:55.4	If you just dump anything that was living before, whether it's plant material, animal material
1:00.6	in a pile and just walk away from it, it's going to break down and become compost.
1:05.7	It doesn't get any easier than that.
1:08.3	There you go.
1:09.3	I mean, easy enough right there.
1:10.6	How about this?
1:11.6	Is there a type of composting that you think is just not worth the time, whether it be
1:17.3	bokashi or worm or whatever?
1:19.6	Yeah, so I cover a lot of the composting methods in my book.
1:24.6	I'm not, although I've covered a trench composting, I'm not a lever of it and here's the reason
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