Creative Ways to Compost

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The wide world of composting is the topic of today’s podcast with Alessandro Vitale. At his home in London, he doesn’t stick to just one method. Instead, he vermicomposts, bokashi composts, and several methods in-between. He even buries some of his scraps directly in the garden. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3RI7ZDj Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3t733O3 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3ZEbNYg EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3PyGrh4 Learn More: 25+ Plants That You Can Regrow From Your Kitchen Scraps Connect With Alessandro Vitale: Alessandro Vitale is also known as “Spicy Moustache”. Based in London, he’s been an Urban farmer for almost a decade and a content creator for the past 2 years. His channel focuses on gardening and maximizing the production of food in a small space. Other topics include foraging wild food, and how to use every part of your fruit and vegetables for a more sustainable life even in the middle of the city. Alessandro’s goal is to educate people not only to grow their own food, but also to reduce their impact on the environment. Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire 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. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Talking Composts today with Hollisandra Vitale, aka spicy moustache aka the Italian god of gardening.
0:09.6	Some of the best monocurs, almost like you're in Game of Thrones, you have all the different
0:14.0	names at the end of your actual name, but we're back and something that you're big on
0:20.0	is zero waste, right?
0:21.6	Whether it's in the kitchen or in the garden, so a lot of stuff I imagine is making it
0:25.6	through some kind of composting system and maybe we could start, dude, with how many different
0:31.0	types of composting you actually do right now?
0:34.0	Yeah, so what I'm doing at home, when I started composting at first, obviously the
0:41.5	majority of people had an experience, so I messed it up many times, I didn't get the right
0:48.6	balance and I was doing loads of mistakes, but then I met loads of people here in London
0:57.2	really knowledgeable about soil microorganisms and how to compost correctly, like Charles Dowding
1:04.8	or Michael Kennert, which is a guy like in Brighton, and he's got a really cool business
1:12.8	about collecting food waste from all the local shops and transforming it into compost.
1:18.5	Super cool, and yeah, thanks to me and I learned this composting method that is called
1:26.0	Bioriacto, that it's one of the main methods which I use in the garden to compost and it's
1:32.0	low cost, super efficient, you just need some mesh, some netting, create a loop and then
1:39.8	use a pallet as a base and fold some of that netting at the bottom so it doesn't fall through
1:47.1	and then start stocking, nothing over-complicate, just a ratio of 50-50 like green and browns
1:54.3	and stock, stock, stock, keep it moist or even covered if you can with some tarp
2:00.9	and then you can get some this amazing compost that you can use straight in your garden to top
2:07.5	up your raised beds or you can use it to make compost tea and we can get into a rabbit hole
2:16.1	here like never ending, you know. Yeah, there's actually a guy in our team Diego, he is big on the
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