Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

I have always used John Arthus Bowers (JAB) Multi Purpose - it is relatively cheap, I buy it from local garden centre (when on special offer), I buy in the Autumn because I find it is much easier to use (spring-bought often waterlogged etc.). It contains some rubbish, but doesn't seem too bad -...

Hi Kristen......I suspect using Firefox is the reason for my problems uploading files so I reverted to I.E. and was eventually able to delete the duplicted posts. The reason for the duplication in the first place was because (unlike with my previous posts) when I clicked the "Post Reply" button...

I don't think my MPC (J Arthur Bowers) is preforming as well as previous years either. I've decided to try commercial compost. it looked expensive when I checked it, but I reckon that is just the "one bag price". Trouble is they do half a dozen different types, and I don't know which would be...

As Kristen says, shame to waste all that lovely top soil.

Thanks K, appreciate your help.

Did it look like this if yes its a beetle larvae @exlabman

Its an organic product specific for spuds, I've had good success with it over the years.I thought spuds needed high K fertiliser? For example, lots of folk line potato planting trenches with Comfrey leaves, also high in Potash ...

I wouldn't bat an eyelid. We all get vastly more poison just breathing the air in the street.

That's all I know M She told me the other day on the phone

I make my own brew from my own compost, they call it compost tea. When diluting I add 1 litre to my 10 litre can, same as you lot do with the comfry.Agreed it should look like weak tea when applied to your plants, I might just strengthen slightly if we have lots of rain.

This coming week..

Jane, we could pot some more up for you if you want. At the moment I'm digging them out by the sq m, and binning them, as I need the extra space in the veg plot. Still got a few million to go!

Blimey, it never occurred to me not to put seeding weeds in the compost bin. I've just been throwing everything in! Live and learn, thanks Jazz.Gazania

The click on reply stopped working for me for some reason but now it's okay again. Could be because my computer crashed on me 10 days ago and I'm using a laptop with Ubunto and I haven't got a clue what I am doing ... nothing new there then ...Pete, I mean Calcium Carbonate which is good...

Sorry late response but been away up north with no internet for a week. Looks about right to me. How does it taste

One thing I've discovered....do not dig up a chive patch and by mistake put it in your compost bin and spread the compost around your borders!!

Hi, I pour my leachate into my normal compost bin, as it is a bacterial soup it should help with the rotting process. I have a bought wormery, with 5 trays, only ever seem to get 2-3 trays going at once as they won't manage any more. I have to go through them manually once ready, evicting the...

Interesting, thanks for that.

I have an innocuous looking (which was expensive, except that I got a good discount) water butt on the downpipe on the house, the tap at the bottom is permanently connected to a hose and always turned on. The hose has a push-connector at a couple of feet, which I disconnect in winter and stuff...

Just a bit of an update from me after a bit more digging through the compost piles. What strikes me now, after having looked a bit more at the clumps, is that it seems that the tough fibrous mat of the grass roots is the stuff that is not disintigrating well. So maybe a mixture of the fibrous...