Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

Hi Aster. I think you are posting in the wrong areas. Just follow the menus through to the subject you want to go to. If you have a new question or comment then if it's about say beginners gardening go to there and click on 'start a new thread.' The best person to advise you on this is Daisees....

I think we've got the same subject on 2 threads :D

I never thought of that Walnut any burly hedgehogs out there are more than welcome to come and stay in my garden. Helen.xxx.

me too Pro Gard.. good compost and no vermon

I compost loads of leaves in the compost bins and others in the black bags with holes prodded through. Both methods are good but if you have hundreds of trees, you can't always keep up with it and another load has to go into the green wheelie bin for the Council to recycle.

Freddy, 6x is used more as a top dressing/fertilizer rather than being used as a soil conditioner which is what you do with non-composted manure. David.

Thanks

I always bung in a load of chicken pellets for good measure with any new bed or planting.

It is not the effect it has on the soil. Being organic it will rot down to nutrients. Its what it will attract while it is rotting down. The only way to dispose of cooked food is either in a worm bin or using a digester which is sealed against rats. Leave bread lying around it will attract rats....

Composted bark. Thanks for the replies from David and Helofadigger, and the excellent photo. I should have called the sheeting "Polypropylene permeable membrane" (trade names being Terrum and Phormisol) to differentiate it from solid plastic sheet. Also, I should have called the composted bark...

Sorry, but the heat is generated by the process of decomposition, not by exposure to the sun. Else why would there be so much advice to cover the heap with old carpet etc. to keep the heat in. Try this, put a pile of grass cuttings in the shade and leave them. They begin to steam just as quickly...

Cheers geoff :DThat means my compost is really working :DI just wish i hadn't strategically attacked them now with my spade. :( Oh well i was only turning it over anyway, just adding air. Oh the wonders of composting

All this summer when I walk the dogs in the local park, I have been collecting lolly sticks! the cafe has closed for winter now but I have around 80 sticks which are nice and clean after going in the dishwasher. I have experimented and found that waterproof pens work well on them. They can only...

That's a great idea!I'm hoping to recycle a lot of the concrete sleepers and stones once I get round (and unbroken) to getting things on the move out there

I use composted bark instead of leaf mould when I run out. Cheapest source is a Non-peat growing bag. Some of the stuff is a bit 'rough' so you could sift it, but the ferns will not care too much.

Thats brilliant, thanks for that.

Hi Sandy and thank you :DI want to add nutrients, i used to use chicken doo doo pellets but they don't half attract the flies :eek:

Another point the water would have to be treated in some way storing water and passing it through pipes would lead to a problem of algae build up, you would have all sorts of gligamaglogs growing in the system. :eek:

Hello there, newbie here, just planning a veg garden. If I sow field beans in sept to have grean manure crops to improve my soil, do i dig all the plant? will beans grow which i can harvest and eat, then dig the rest of the plant for green manure?

Well done Paul - very helpful.