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Make Your Own Potting Compost

Either buy compost for propagation, or you can make it. With homemade you know what's in there. See possibilities here: having good materials to make your own needs forethought and that you made suitable compost. Why compost not soil? Compost has a fine crumb structure, good aeration, decent drainage. Although the soil at Homeacres is great soil, it is dense and wet in cells and pots. What makes a good mix?! In order of importance: 1 Nutrient density, 2 Good drainage, 3 Holds moisture, 4 Weed free. I show three possible main ingredients sieved to 4mm, 1 Own compost 2 Worm compost 3 Woodchip compost - must be dry enough to sieve, makes manure difficult PLUS in small amounts (and why) are soil, perlite/vermiculite, sand, minerals like seaweed powder, wood ash, basalt dust. 00:04 Any new sowings are for trial purposes! 00:38 Multisown radish, 5 seeds per cell 00:54 Result with homemade compost when it's good 01:39 Dramatic comparison between 2 different composts 02:04 What is digestate 'compost' 02.31 So-called 'organic' compost 02:49 My composts for this video 03:00 Result of sieving homemade compost to 12mm / half inch 04.20 Result of sieving composts to 4mm / 1/6in 04:58 Composts need to be dry for sieving to work 05:58 18 month old compost 4mm 06:25 Three year old wood chip to 4mm 07:07 Worm compost to 4mm, includes a little soil from being on the ground 07:58 How to run worm composting at different scales 09:17 Be creative, according to what you have available 10:10 Amazing weight differences of soil, compost, vermiculite 11:29 Wood ash 11:51 Rockdust from basalt / volcanic 12:38 3 kale plants, 6 months in 2L. pots of different composts 13.15 (spent) Mushroom compost 13:44 Propagation fun 14:16 An easy way to mix ingredients Children's Gardening Book https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/... Online propagation lessons, short course https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/... We did more compost trials in the greenhouse last spring    • Comparing different composts for prop...   And this is one of me How to Propagate    • Propagation 2 first sowings in Februa...   You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:    / @charlesdowding1nodig