Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

The click on reply stopped working for me for some reason but now it's okay again. Could be because my computer crashed on me 10 days ago and I'm using a laptop with Ubunto and I haven't got a clue what I am doing ... nothing new there then ...Pete, I mean Calcium Carbonate which is good...

Sorry late response but been away up north with no internet for a week. Looks about right to me. How does it taste

One thing I've discovered....do not dig up a chive patch and by mistake put it in your compost bin and spread the compost around your borders!!

Hi, I pour my leachate into my normal compost bin, as it is a bacterial soup it should help with the rotting process. I have a bought wormery, with 5 trays, only ever seem to get 2-3 trays going at once as they won't manage any more. I have to go through them manually once ready, evicting the...

Interesting, thanks for that.

I have an innocuous looking (which was expensive, except that I got a good discount) water butt on the downpipe on the house, the tap at the bottom is permanently connected to a hose and always turned on. The hose has a push-connector at a couple of feet, which I disconnect in winter and stuff...

Just a bit of an update from me after a bit more digging through the compost piles. What strikes me now, after having looked a bit more at the clumps, is that it seems that the tough fibrous mat of the grass roots is the stuff that is not disintigrating well. So maybe a mixture of the fibrous...

Awwww.

sadly we dont have any kind of garden waste collections where I am. Have resorted to putting a notice up at work!

Have you tried CPL I have found them really handy & reasonable in the past..

No one's warned you yet......Get the liquid on your hands and you'll smell bad forever

I have recently bought some and am very impressed with how it looks and feels

Used some this morning for sowing some snaps as I want to get them off to an early start. Lovely stuff. I like it better than the Gro-Sure.

Farmyard manure..nothing really seems to work like it. I get mine locally and it always seems to pong even when it is a year or so old. The commercial stuff from my local Charlies and used by some of my lady friends is pong free. I am not sure it is as good a the real thing straight from the...

yes thats the trouble. !! I have to get it delivered . a friend of mine has horses and said i could have as much poo as I wanted but strangley no one wants to take me!!!

Good idea. I chopped down the tree by my compost heap for the same reason

I'd leave where they are for the local wildlife, they need all the help they can get.

We don't have a green waste collection at all! Think it's because we live in the countryside? Fine as long as we don't get stopped having bonfires. Oh gosh shock horror bonfires, bet that's where much of the burnable so called recycling ends up anyway! We have 1 bucket collection per week. 1...

None of it has any great nutrient value, mainly tannins and lignins, so it won't make a lot of difference. Lovely soil conditioner though & it holds moisture well