Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

I just used 3 tonne of 10mm and 2 tonne of sharp sand in a land drainage job in another part of the site. Installed drainage crates and French drain herringbone collection array.

Oakridge - my apologies, I got it wrong - I have looked again and you are right they are Schizostylis. I have now seen the pink ones. I had never seen a white Schitzostylis before, and the colour made me think they were Chincherees, where white is the dominent colour.

Keep waste away from your back door as the flies will settle on it, waiting for it to open and gain access to indoors.Wine fly traps are easily made using some small pots/jars with inverted cones of cardboard with a 10mm hole at the pointy end sitting in the necks and a small amount of...

I have some of those composters that I bought from the council and have tried both leaves and household waste in them but have found that because of the small size of them the stuff rots down but not as good as say a proper large square wooden compost bin.I have all but given up with mine...

Thanks for that Pete!Are sulphur chips and sequestered iron items generally available from ones Garden Center or Nursery?

I put Banananana skins under my tomatoes for the potassium, don't really need the calcium as any lime mortar and chalk waste from jobs goes onto the plot. Rhubarb loves it

I use a lot of horse manure from local farms and stables - all free as long as you collect.You may find that your local council dump sells bags of soil conditioner. It's usually cheaper than compost and is good for conditioning clay soil. Their soil conditioner is from the green waste that...

Hi, I have set up a raised bed using a compost made from 40% food waste, 40% green, 20% fish waste and another raised bed using really well rotted manure. Ive some veg planted, rocket, broccoli, cabbage. The veg in the manure bed seem to be doing nicely but in the other bed growth is slower but...

I've found that when turning the heap some tiny baby worms appear to be nesting in the folds of cardboard, so I think it does help. Good luck Magnus

I suppose if you are going to keep the veg trug planted with something throughout the winter as well then it wouldn't hurt to add a little in the Autumn. Otherwise, I wouldn't add any more until next Spring.

I forget a lot of things nowadays

I was very surprised at how much it had decomposed

I used compost direct for a bulk bag of mulch which was pretty good.Not sure if they go out as far as you but there also thecompostcentre which is up the road from me (but sometime have long lead times)

I'd just put it straight on the soil where you want it. It will work well as a mulch and won't hinder any compost when you spread that. No need to do two separate jobs of putting it with the compost and then spreading. Anything for an easier life!

I make homemade seaweed tea with bladderwrack collect a bin bag from my local beach give it a good wash then I spread over my lawn and go over it the my mower into a water butt month later it's done- but man it stinks

I've not used this Amadeo but reading the back of the bag I don't see that it would be a problem. I would imagine the fertiliser only releases after watering so won't be continuous. However, I advise that you don't use any other fertiliser as well, what the pack contains will be enough. If you...

My question is - whether I can use sand instead of pumice, or perlite for drenage when making potting soil mix for my Peace Lilly? And which sand would be the best for this function, and in which proportion can I mix it with potting soil?

My neighbour has pampass grass, she's 84 bless her and over the last 8 years it's just grown into an ugly mess that she can't control, it's so sharp and has really spread out from the corners of her garden..the people who cut her grass won't touch it for some reason though!? It does look lovely...

HiyaI'm trying to be as organic as possible and I've been using seaweed fertiliser, the Maxicrop one. But it describes it as a plant tonic rather than fertiliser. Does that mean it's only a supplement and not a replacement for the non-organic fertilisers?Has anyone tried growing pot plants...

Erm ... sort of Does stuffing it into an unused water butt, filling it with water and then just extracting a bit into a watering can count?