Temporary Compost Bin Reveal 🌱 How Do I Make Compost For Free 🌱 Planting Kondor Giant Potatoes

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:17]Oh, welcome back my gardening friends.

[00:00:19]Well, I'm just uh started to empty the uh temporary pallet collar bins. Just having a quick sort through it.

[00:00:30]muffin ready. This is I'm going to just take out the bigger lumps and put those in the compost bin. They can have another 12 months uh growing. And obviously, it's nice to get a few worms uh into the worm bin. It's well worth it if you've got a little bit of space.

[00:00:58]This material is quite nice. Well, it always has been. But I've got some Condor potatoes here that need potting up. And uh I think I'll actually I'll go and get a couple of bags. I might as well just uh fill the bags and stick the potatoes in.

[00:01:17]Potatoes growing. We'll uh recycle them.

[00:01:21]Right. I'm going to take this back to to the uh to the bed behind you.

[00:01:28]Now I'm going to bring some cloth uh cloth sacks so sacks back.

[00:01:35]I found uh some more cocoa koi from uh a cannabis uh dump and they're 30 liter bags. So I can reuse those now. That's why should have showed you these first, shouldn't I? Oh, but um I'm going to empty these out. I can reuse these bags. The 30 liter bags is about 20 lers in each bag. So, I'm going to say another 100 lers of fan cocoa koi um in May for the start of May.

[00:02:06]These are brand new bags.

[00:02:09]They only use them once. Uh very light, 30 uh 30 L. Bit of stress relief. Making sure there's no uh horrible objects in there.

[00:02:26]That's ready for sifting.

[00:02:30]It's nice. And my total now since 2014 is 46,000 L of free compost. You see why I've got lots of raised beds.

[00:02:45]Right, let's concentrate. Let's try and do it right first time.

[00:02:53]Seems silly moving all the compost about when I'm adding nothing to this.

[00:03:05]Absolute uh no need whatsoever.

[00:03:09]Got three condors in here. These didn't make the grade for the uh giant these are just chits. Giant potato.

[00:03:18]So, actually, I think I'll fill it up and dig a hole.

[00:03:23]He says, "But these potatoes will break all this material down.

[00:03:32]You could even leave those big bits in there.

[00:03:44]Think you can appreciate uh what material looks like. And this is what get gets emptied out into the bins.

[00:04:01]Come on, you fool. [laughter] Let's plant the pot as well, he says.

[00:04:07]Oh, dear dear me.

[00:04:10]That's what getting old does for you.

[00:04:14]We probably won't get a giant potato in here because we're not looking after it, but uh please bear with me as I get older and start to uh forget where I'm forget what I'm saying and I'll lose where I'm uh what I'm talking about, etc. But at least those condors are potted up now. I'll fill some of them other sacks up as well. Or will I? Probably not.

[00:04:43]I've left me bucket behind. So, I'm going to uh fill another sack. Then we'll show you some of the material.

[00:04:53]So, we got a potato growing in the background.

[00:05:06]Now, you know, I do throw a bit of compost and soil in when I'm weeding and that, but that's absolute uh lovely stuff.

[00:05:15]That looks like it's uh Oh, no, it's already gone.

[00:05:23]I've got asparagus growing everywhere.

[00:05:25]I'll put it on that bed there when I cut it down, ready to go in the the bin. And there's asparagus growing everywhere.

[00:05:33]Nature always finds a way. But this little job, I ain't got much time left now, but this little job, same little job, I can do that. Uh, as and when I've got time, the odd stone.

[00:05:59]I've got a few more potatoes at home.

[00:06:04]Not the single seed potato challenge from Steve at dig green fingers etc. Strawberry roots carrot.

[00:06:34]Whatever. Right, I'm going to crack on with this, guys. I don't want to uh bore you completely.

[00:06:43]get that first tray off and you can see how we how much better it gets as we go down. He says hopefully you can see it's well worth uh using some old pallet collars on a bed that's uh not being used.

[00:06:58]These pallet collars won't last much longer. [laughter] Quick potato reveal. Probably nothing there.

[00:07:28]There's the uh culprit. But uh look, excuse me.

[00:07:38]Well, not many potatoes on it, but Oh, hang on. He says nah, Mrs. Kale have that one.

[00:07:52]Say that one.

[00:07:55]Big gritty.

[00:07:57]Right, we'll crack on. That's all I've got out of it uh so far. So, I'll have another 10 minutes.

[00:08:09]It's like a treasure hunt.

[00:08:13]So, the material close to the bottom just needs uh turning over. I could I found a layer of grass clippings, probably a little bit too thick. That was a little bit slimy, but there the uh the red wrigglers were absolutely loving it. the remains of a lollipop stick, one of me plant labels, and uh some sweet corn that's breaking down nicely.

[00:08:39]One of the molvin uh giant beetroots didn't make it in the middle of the screen there. Looks like some garden canes. And I've also found some raspberry canes that I've snipped up into small bits. And uh considering how much I've taken out, I think I've only got probably 30 L in each of these bays. But remembering I've already taken off uh the debris at the top, the larger stuff that didn't break down because it was the last that went in. And I'll keep building on this pile and I can keep helping myself to it to fill my cloth containers. cuz then I can spread it out and grow something in it uh in the future. Any debris that I find when I chuck it out, I'll just chuck in there. But uh no, it's lovely stuff.

[00:09:32]Well worth doing. Temporary compost bins.

[00:09:37]And of course, all the juices that run out of it have gone into those beds at the bottom. And I've had some wonderful brasas in the past, but I won't putting brasas there this year because we had massive problems with club root. This is where my sweet corn and some other things are going. As I always say, find a space. I'll fill it.

[00:09:58]So, if you've finished growing and uh you got some space spare, then uh why not use it as a temporary compost bin?

[00:10:11]My compost bin over on plot one isn't quite big enough really, but once that's filled, then I can start using these.

[00:10:20]And it's uh certainly pays off.

[00:10:25]Must have at least 1,000 L plus of uh material that uh isn't properly broken down, but the potatoes and other things will finish it off, and then eventually it'll be riddled and added to my homemade compost.

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