WARNING! Is This Compost Secretly KILLING Your Garden’s Harvest?

This video is a warning to all gardeners using compost in their garden. Compost has been put on a pedestal as the solution to all our gardening problems, but applying compost at the wrong time or in the wrong amounts can cause all sorts of problems. Is this compost secretly killing your garden's harvest? This video explains how to avoid these compost mistakes and will teach you how to apply compost for beginners.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Compost Isn't Perfect
1:15 Fruit Trees Dropping Fruit
3:50 Is Your Compost Finished Composting?
8:28 Adding Compost To Fruit Trees
11:18 Evidence Compost Killed My Harvest
16:58 This Fruit Tree Breaks The Rules
18:18 Nutrient Timing And Over Fertilizing
22:05 Using Mulch Instead Of Compost
24:35 Final Thoughts And Summary
26:28 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about how to use compost in garden beds or around fruit trees, want to learn more about growing fruit trees or the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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