Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

Indeed I am and I hope so.Louise, how deep is the compost in the raised beds and how do you yourself gauge when the plots need watering?Generally speaking, a plant is made up of nothing more than air, water and a few trace elements. It needs warmth and sunshine in order to grow. So your...

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Male urine is preferable to female as it is less acidic. I would be careful with the grass cuttings as too many will just turn to mush,as @john558 says get your mix of greens and browns correct.

Typically my first post is a necro-post, so sorry for that.....but - As has already been said, FB+B won't dissolve in the water to make a liquid plant feed, but you could ferment it down and essentially liquify it with the aid of lactobacillus. Just a thought

Do the police have their stables near you? If so, you may be able to get bags of it from them.

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@shiney Thanks for that info, I'll need get to Wickes

Both cow manure and woodchips break down by a fungal process rather than the bacterial process of composting. You'd have sucess with the manure, but I think the chips would take longer to break down and they'd rob the manure of nitrogen while doing it.

thank you for that. I think I will mix it in with a bag of compost I have.

Right, one compost bin done. On dpm, slabs, dpm and I've left space around the bin to get the mower so there shouldn't be any little corners for horsetail to hide. I'm thinking messy/wildlife area right in the corner, so I'll just have to hand pull horsetail there :\

Anyone used a product called 1-Component Soil Nutrition? Bcuzz Products, supplied by Atami in the NetherlandsI have received 2 free sample 50ml bottles, hoping they are good.

I'm still using Wickes own brand. It's not too bad this season I've just collected my latest batch and that makes us having bought over 5,000 litres this year . Some of the cost has been recouped from the sale of plants

Lol. I told her that if she's worried, just to water the plants at night when the dogs are in the house.

Spose it depends what composting your doing. Im guessing they would get killed if you are hot composting because of the temperature being up to 60c so i know fly eggs and flies get killed in that according to the Hotbin website

Thanks all for the replies

I have my tomatoes growing it and so far they are doing very well quite impressed with it

Supposed to be OK, but some years ago the RHS recommended using a mask/not inhaling, so perhaps use one of these?

I think my Mum would be proud of me as my habit of grubbing around in the muck hasn't changed since I was a Kid