Essential Compost Equipment

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The two crucial elements, water and oxygen are present in every balanced compost pile. Adding water is easy, but how do composters add oxygen? Kate and Kevin have a conversation about the best ways to do this, how to maintain the compost, and which methods are their favorites. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3M7sKET Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3QhIgAt Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3FhTD59 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3twoGrj Connect With Kate Flood: Kate Flood is happiest when she's teaching people about compost, reading about it, or elbow deep in the stuff. She's a compost nerd and sustainability educator, and she's on a mission to help others step-up their household waste management. From her home on the south coast of New South Wales, the teacher and mum of three busy dirt-babies spreads the word on 'garden gold' via Instagram, TikTok, and workshops for councils, community gardens and businesses. Kate has inspired her family, friends, and ever-growing online community to think about the small actions they can take daily to stem the climate crisis and make composting fun Website Instagram TikTok 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... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've talked a lot about how composting works, why you should do it, different ways to
0:07.0	get different ingredients.
0:08.2	We haven't actually talked exactly how to do it.
0:12.2	The what, the how, what sort of method do you use, what technique do you use, and that's
0:17.1	why Kate Flood is back on the podcast, the compost coach.
0:20.4	So okay, I know yesterday we were talking about the four essential universal compost ingredients.
0:25.5	We sort of missed two.
0:27.6	We did it.
0:28.6	I don't want to miss two, because otherwise a compost would just nitrogen and carbon is
0:33.8	not going to thrive unless we add water and oxygen.
0:37.7	So I'll touch on those quickly.
0:39.2	Oxygen doesn't really feel like a tangible thing that you can add, because you know,
0:42.6	half of you grab handfuls of it added into your compost pile, but actually as a compost
0:46.8	created, you can add it in.
0:49.5	So that through a number of methods, turning your compost is really crucial.
0:54.9	If things, I always like to say your nose knows when it's time to turn your compost.
1:00.5	If things are a little bit stinky, that's a sign that anaerobic bacteria are taking over.
1:06.9	So it's a really important, important at that point to get in there with a pitchfork, to
1:11.5	get in there with the cockscrew compost, air raider, and open up pockets of your organic
1:17.1	matter by turning it.
1:18.8	You can also actually create open pour spaces within your compost pile if you're not wanting
1:24.5	to turn it frequently.
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