Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

Hi flowerpot, I must admit that i feed the birds every day and i make all kinds of bird nesting house's from ones made out of "wait for it" clay flower pots And they work and look good, to all kinds of shapes and as i say i have them all over the garden, Now feeding the birds, I feed them home...

Hi Freddy Hows you , the only problem would be that they may make a nest , its when people put food waste that attracts rats , but I look at it like this who knows what happens when its dark outside and what the the little critters get up too. Best not to know !!!!! I wouldnt worry plus if...

Hi *Dim* Not so sure your mix would be good as a potting compost for seedlings etc? probably ok when planting shrubs etc..

Ba Dum, Tish.....:D

If Levington's is good enough for Chiltern Seeds, it's good enough for me!

Ideally Len, you need to turn the heap at least once a month.

Thanks guys. At a local compost place near me Biowise they sell 1 ton bags of compost 10mm for £35.00 they call it soil enhancer if I got some of this & riddled the lumps out then mixed it 2/3 compost to 1/3 sharp sand do you think this would be ok. Wicks is a 30 mile round trip & Biowise is...

You can chuck in topsoil from around the raised bed, then fill in around the lowered areas to make paths (fill in with rubble or gravel or similar to make the paths - maybe look on freecycle if you don't have materials to hand)

With the Autumn prunings to compost I started with fresh horse muck/straw and the 4ft open bin is now full and steaming nicely.

Was at the local recycling place and as I was chucking in some woody waste I noticed someone before me had dumped some fuchsias. Being a bit of a make do and mend sort and not liking to see them there I took some cuttings and will try to get them over the winter somehow. I know there are...

Dim, all green, leafy plants are high in nitrogen, that is why you mix them with " brown " material when composting.

And smells great Zig.:D

Thanks Dave for that and some interesting research too. Not sure I would go as far as a testing kit myself.I guess I do mine by gut feel really. The pens get a lot less variety of stuff so I figure it is probably less fertile. I generally save the kitchen scrap compost for my veg and a few...

I store my shredded leaves and chopped woody stuff in bags and a bin and just add in thin layers to my main 2 year cycle heap. Rots down a treat.

Ah yes, I have a lawn like that already. MrsM fed the lawn with fertiliser in the summer but MrsM doesn't do anything steady or particularly read instructions so we have a very well-fed lawn, in patches. I think she fed it by hand whilst marching at a similar pace to 2nd Battalion Light...

Well, Clueless, I'm not panicking over this Thread, just :runhills::runhills:

Our parish councillors are all excellent

Oh, the worms will dig it in if you don't want to. But the Badgers will throw it everywhere to get at the worms.

I cant mix with soil the is none.. I dug down to the rock, there was not much of anything before now I hve about 14 inches of stuff.... But you are right i will order some kind of PH testing kit from the internet....thank you.

I have managed to better that 33p/kg above - got some for 25p/kg today.Bargain hunting at Homebase today I noticed their 3 kg boxes were reduced to £1.50 plus on BOGOF, so only 75p each. If only it had also been a 10% off day: