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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Interesting Composting Techniques

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Ever struggled with a tumble composter? If so, you're not alone. Jared from Upcycle talks about a few of his favorite composting techniques in today's episode that AREN'T compost tumblers. More About Upcycle Native Soil Fertilizer: Upcycle & Company Buy Native Soil Fertilizer Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's going on?

0:01.0

What's going on?

0:02.0

Kevin here.

0:03.0

Today we're going to talk about some of the struggles we've had using tumble composters.

0:07.8

I know that I've had some in the past.

0:09.2

I know that Jared's had some.

0:10.5

He's back again on the podcast. and I actually did a video about this a

0:14.8

while ago video and an article on the website about what happens if you have

0:18.8

maggots in your compost and the conclusion that we drew or that I drew was that usually that's a

0:25.0

black soldier fly larva usually it's not a big deal but it is a little unsightly

0:29.0

and you know while they do decompose the material in let's say a tumbler a little quicker

0:34.6

it's not as pleasant of an experience and it's a little

0:38.1

frustrating to deal with sometimes and so i'm gonna let jard come in talk about

0:42.1

some of the struggles he had using a tumble

0:44.1

composter and then what his solution ended up being.

0:47.7

And surprise surprise, it is a low effort, high reward solution.

0:51.3

Hey Kevin, thanks again for having me back today.

0:56.0

I really appreciate the opportunity to come in.

0:58.0

So in my own efforts to compost and be a little bit more mindful of my my impact on the earth and

1:04.5

how I were used things. I got just a giant black container from Home Depot and

1:09.2

thought hey this is you know it's a great way to get out there and start composting so I did what I was

1:14.2

supposed to do I put some some brown paper in there I started putting dirt and food

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