Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

LOL! You just figuring that out??

Accidentally of course

Well, that would just mean that your compost heap would start to smoke when it got hot, Sheal!!!

There are quite a few trials going on and Duchy College are doing a 2 year trial with Carbon Gold's biochar mixes. There is a report from a field lab on Saturday 25th August in East Sussex, where a commercial organic grower has been comparing GroChar to their usual peat based and homemade composts

I know I shared this story before, so here again. When I was young my dad had a small farm, had a nice vegetable garden with tomatoes etc. And he had a good size chicken coop with lots of chickens. There was always a pile of chicken poop. If a tomatoe on the plant was half eaten, or not...

So have mine Tony. Clarie's got the morbidly obese genus of Dalek

You bet

Good to hear I'm not doing something terribly wrong that's making it go mouldy.

When I was a kid and used to spend a lot of time at farms (we kept hosses), it was accepted knowledge in those days that a hay stack fire was most likely to happen if they hay had got wet and then allowed to dry. The reason being that if it got wet, then it would start to rot, and something 20ft...

Thanks Merle

my mum (86 now) always used a sheet of plastis and carpet underfelt or thin foam rubber. this seems to work quite well (she says)

john innes #3 only has enough nutrients for the 1st 6 weeks .... it says so on the bag initially, it holds water well, then after a while, it drains well .... it's one of the better potting soils on the UK market, but add some well rotted manure, garden topsoil etc

i I'd rather get some wormeries instead of splashing out on a tumbler ... the quality and nutrient value of vermicompost/worm humus is a lot better than any other compost

wow. Herts recyclers must have had their own agenda then! I don't keep rabbits though..

It will be bacteria if its hot, or fungi if its VERY hot. Those temperatures will drive rats (and worms ... ) out of the heap, and make the composting process much quicker ... if you can maintain the temperature (by having sufficient material to add, and being able to turn the compost...

Cheers chaps an chapessess thank you some good advice

Yes - think it may be the same - what a good idea to lay on unused soil for a time - will do that - thanks Kristen.

If it says Westland Sphagnum moss peat it should be OK. If its Westland Peat based compost it wont be good for carnivorous plants.

I read on several forums that the best compost is made from wormeries that have rabbit poo as a 50% diet for the worms