Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

Wow!! Fank yoo Jenny

Definitely recommend that you plant the "Bocking-14" sterile cultivar, the self-seeding "fertile" (boy is it fertile!) variety is a real nuisance, but I suppose if you can cut it down to harvest a crop-of-leaves before it flowers then it may be OK to tollerate.

It was about 8 weeks

Well, we all know by now that there's been some dodgy compost on the market this year. So what about next year? Are you going to stick with the same? Although B & Q's Verve multi-compost was probably one of the better ones this year, it too was not up to it's usual standard. As some of you...

Just checked the people I buy from and they don't seem to have any listed :( Their Maxicrop Triple Bio-Stimulant is about £50 for 10L (dunno if "Triple" is more concentrated than yours though)

Now that does make sense.

Just let the worms do the job. Worm-processed compost is a bit richer in nutrients than compost produced by decomposition.

Thanks.

Ah, I should have got that one - I've got a box of the stuff in the shed. Thanks

Will do

"without any additives" I suggestion using "Horticultural soap" which is more suitable for use on plants. However ... it ain't "cheap" :(

You'll be lucky to get anything to grow directly next to a eucalyptus tree. You could try growing a shrub nearby and layering it across but not cutting off the stem. Then it will look like its growing next to the tree but it will actually be fed from a short distance away. Don't buy from a...

I'd go for the John Innes No 3 out of your selection. The B&Q (Verve is their own brand name) general purpose compost would be cheaper. I mix John Innes No 3 into general purpose compost (about half and half) for pots. You could also mix a bit of manure in there as well. As Pete said, the Acer...

LOL! You just figuring that out??

Accidentally of course

Well, that would just mean that your compost heap would start to smoke when it got hot, Sheal!!!

There are quite a few trials going on and Duchy College are doing a 2 year trial with Carbon Gold's biochar mixes. There is a report from a field lab on Saturday 25th August in East Sussex, where a commercial organic grower has been comparing GroChar to their usual peat based and homemade composts

I know I shared this story before, so here again. When I was young my dad had a small farm, had a nice vegetable garden with tomatoes etc. And he had a good size chicken coop with lots of chickens. There was always a pile of chicken poop. If a tomatoe on the plant was half eaten, or not...

So have mine Tony. Clarie's got the morbidly obese genus of Dalek

You bet