Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

Right i'm with you more mate concerning soil and it being moss besides a fungus which can get out of control...that was my main concern.My hubby as just filled a bin full off our roof a week ago

Coming to this rather late in the day, I agree with the recommendations to improve the soil before feeding the plant, but do make a simplified version of this Making Compost Teas. See How to make Liquid Soluble Fertilizer from Manure, Comfrey and more. during the summer. Plants in pots and...

Agree with Nigel, Liquid seaweed is great but again short term. I use the wool pellets as a mulch against slugs, apparently it feeds the soil as well.

Sorry, but there are no alternatives to @pete

IMO commercially produced compost is now big, big business. More than likely most of us gardeners first contact with 'compost' might have been some outdoor container in which the dining table left overs went, also the kitchen waste.. Do you remember the smell when you disturbed it. The the...

I have three water barrels outside of my greenhouse that I've connected up together with a hose running into my greenhouse with a tap on the end. I fill up my watering cans with it and leave them in there to warm up.

I grow the vast majority of my Tomatoes in soil in the greenhouse. Ok it means I need to take out say a bucket load of growing medium from the holes where the plants have been at the end of the season but my method vastly reduces the need to water daily. I grow about 25 cordons and it would take...

Does not compute + error + redo from start.+++

Interesting that he says you dont need to buy specific fertilisers, just use this stuff. I think we mostly know we dont need to buy specific plant fertilisers??I'm not sure how the price stacks up when you compare with other fertilisers, I've not found a cheap one yet, other than nettle...

The course stuff is mainly woody bits and soil, someone isn't very selective about what she puts on the compost

No socks this time...

Here's what I found:

No, frozen uncooked veg will rot down just as well fresh veg, once it's unfrozen, lucius

Cheers for the photos Steve, I plan on doing mine much the same I hope, have tin sheets about the place and could grab a few pallets and stuff too if needs be.Spoken like a true engineer haha! I know Ill get more out of it but was thinking of being lazy.I can get the manure regularly and...

As I had 2 tons of topsoil delivered - 1 from Rolawn (beds and borders) and 1 from "fieldcompost" I had enough left over from filling 2 raised beds to allow me to scrape off some of the topsoil that had a more than a dusting of sand on it - to make it easier I just flattened the surface first by...

I usually get enough to fill a Ford Transit. Is that enough for you?

You could use it as mulch as it is

I can get 40L bags for £2 here so gave it a try, Budgens are selling it. I hadn't heard of it before either but was pleasantly surprised. I must have most other compost this year I've been disappointed by

You're most welcome.

Autumn for me too. Agree, manure is all about feeding the soil and adding structure to it. Quite different to fertiliser