Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

Yes! used to use it some years ago, but then the PC brigade got to work and all the Garden centres etc, stopped stocking it.It would be nice to be able to buy pure peat once again.The best peat of all was that what was sold for spreading in chicken (hen) houses, it was nice and lumpy...

Hi Peter, and a warm welcome! Did you place the compost 'bins' onto bare earth/grass etc (as opposed to a concrete slab). Just thinking if they're on a solid, inpenetrable base the worms won't be able to find a way in! What are you putting on the compost? My best heaps have a good mix...

I have recently started peeiing into a bucket with a layer of sawdust/shavings at the botton so neighbors can't hear what I'm up to and when there's enough into the composter it goes. Save taking mucky shoes off to go inside tothe loo. Also the pet rabits latrine is lines with...

Hi Walnut and Takemor02withit. YES we are so proud of him, and what a good part he played. J.R.P.

I just use multicompost and sand often with garden soil added - which is not far off what David said. Pure compost can get a bit soggy.

Moyra. You can use fresh horse pooh to make liquid manure quiet safely. Done it loads of times. It's only when digging it in you need to let it break down first. Too many nitrates/nitrites in the fresh stuff. Someone here told me it's because the pooh contains pee ???? and that is what does it....

Hi Loofah.You are right in theory - the compost should be steralised and have no spurious seeds. But a few can get through. I buy multi-purpose compost from Focus, which is not bad - but not as good or as cheap as it was three years ago. I now have to sieve it. I had a small number of...

Thanks for the link glenw. Seems to imply they're not a great thing doesn't it? I put stuff straight into a worktop caddy lined with a bag then put the full bag into the compost bin. Mine are all up the sides too ismeval. They're like little tiny moths with white wings. I might try leaving the...

:D...Of course I do Liz!....Don't waste waste ,I say:rolleyes: It amazes me too the bits and pieces that get into the compost...For example,Elastic bands???what the heck do they come off:confused:

Great article jimbo! I bought a wiggly wigglers wormery about 8 years ago, decided to keep it in the kitchen (as advertised). Got it all set up, worms released into their new 'home', and went to bed. Nest morning, came downstairs, and stopped in my tracks, as to my utter horror, the worms...

If you had the chance again would you choose a rotarybin over the others.?

Many thanks - Must tell the gardener or as I should call her my Fiancee.

Thanks Pete, I'll do thatI think I hav gone a bit mad this time, I have about 200 plants on the go - I will have a lot of potting on to do!

i have asked . the answer was no.but i am not gonna give up, im going to keep asking

I use Horse Manure as a swear word in the garden when all is not going too well. If in doubt store it for a year or so

Hi, It's not really a good time to be incorporating manure,just now. Fine for topdressing established plants and shrubs, but not small seedlings or small plants! If you have lots of composting space,either mix it with your present compost,it will give it lots of umph, or stack the manure for...

Ah thanks guys. I'll stop composting glossy mags then. Just use the recycling bag for those.

Wow its sooo black, and its come with baby worms in :D Just spread my first few bin bags of it into my clays beds i call the pond, and am really surprised. I didn't realise i had so much at the bottom of my bin, but then i have been doing it for about a year.How come the compost you buy...

If you practice growing in rotation, then add lime to the area which is growing brassicas the following year. That year you lime every four years and should keep the balance right.

Welcome "Tontodollydog" love that name,good advice off terrier.