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Welcome to I Can Grow, your gardening channel where I help you grow a thriving garden no matter your space, experience, or location! Sharing tips and step-by-step tutorials to make gardening easier and more enjoyable. Episodes every Week! Read of the Week: "Compost, Motherf*er: The History, The Methods, The Magic”** You know what’s wrong with most people today? They throw sh*t away. Perfectly good scraps, banana peels, coffee grounds, veggie ends—all that potential just sittin’ in the trash, stinkin’ up landfills and pumpin’ methane into the sky like we got air to waste. But me? I ain’t lettin’ that slide. ‘Cause compost ain’t trash—it’s resurrection. It’s takin’ death, leftovers, rot—and turnin’ it into life. And I’m gonna break it down for you, four ways, so even a half-brained dumbass can start doin’ it right. METHOD ONE: Acid (Vinegar) Composting Now here’s some science for that ass. Most composting breaks things down with microbes and time. But vinegar? Vinegar says “F*** patience.” It’s acidic, sharp, and it’ll break down things like bones, eggshells, and high-calcium materials faster than regular methods. How it works: You take bones, shells, or even weeds. Soak ‘em in a vinegar solution—usually apple cider vinegar or white vinegar diluted with water. The acid dissolves the calcium and other minerals, turnin’ ‘em into plant-available nutrients. That’s called water-soluble calcium when you do it Acidic style. Plants love it during flowering and fruiting stages. Now don’t get it twisted—vinegar ain’t for a whole compost pile. This is a special ops method. You use it for targeted inputs, not your whole damn banana peel collection. METHOD TWO: Simply Water (Anaerobic Compost Tea) Alright, picture this. You got a bucket. You got water. You got scraps. You put that together and let it sit. Congratulations, you just made the stinkiest-ass experiment your neighbors will ever smell. This method goes back centuries in rural villages. People would dunk organic matter in barrels of water, let it stew, and use that foul-smelling brew as fertilizer. We’re talkin’ anaerobic breakdown—without oxygen. How to do it: Toss in kitchen scraps, weeds, manure. Cover with water. Seal that sucker and let it sit for weeks, sometimes months. Strain it out, dilute the liquid, and pour it on your plants. METHOD THREE: Natural Korean Farming (KNF) Now THIS… this is art. KNF came outta Korea, built by a man named Cho Han Kyu in the 1960s. The philosophy is simple: you don’t control nature, you collaborate with it. You ain’t dumpin’ chemicals. You’re usin’ the life already in your soil—microbes, fungi, bacteria—and feedin’ them right. Kitchen scraps become fermented plant juice, fish amino acid, lactic acid bacteria, all that microbial jazz. Process example? You take fruit scraps. Mix ‘em with brown sugar. Let it ferment. Boom—fermented plant juice that feeds your plants and soil microbes. Eggshells and vinegar? That’s your calcium source. Rice water? That’s how you catch lactic acid bacteria. You build an entire symphony of soil health—all from waste. It ain’t fast. It ain’t easy. But it’s sustainable. And it works like a motherf***er. METHOD FOUR: Worm Composting (Vermicomposting) Now we’re gettin’ funky. Worms—specifically red wigglers—are nature’s little janitors. They eat your garbage, digest it, and sh*t out black gold called worm castings. History? The Chinese been usin’ worm bins for centuries. Darwin himself wrote a whole damn book about worms in 1881, sayin’ they’ve turned more soil than all the armies in history. That’s respect. How it works: You set up a bin. Add bedding—shredded newspaper, coconut coir, cardboard. Toss in kitchen scraps—no meat, no dairy, no oil. Worms ain’t workin’ fast food. Keep it moist, not soggy. Worms eat, worms poop, you collect castings every few months. And those castings? They got nutrients, microbes, enzymes—basically every damn thing your plants could want. The Big Picture Now here’s the real lesson: compost ain’t just rot. Compost is redemption. It’s the ultimate cycle of life. You take what’s dead, you feed it to time, microbes, worms, or vinegar—and out the other side comes life. You can go quick and dirty with vinegar, old-school with water, microbial jazz with KNF, or slow funk with worms. But whatever you do, don’t just throw scraps in the trash. That’s ignorance. That’s waste. And as I already told you—this ain’t trash. This is soul food for the soil. So the next time you peel a potato or toss a coffee filter, ask yourself: Am I feedin’ the landfill, or am I feedin’ the future? ‘Cause when you do it right, compost ain’t just science—it’s scripture. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger anyone who calls this garbage… It’s life, motherf***er. LIFE." This Episode´s Music List: Music by Alex Brown from Pixabay Music by Oleksii Holubiev from Pixabay