Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

Here's another extract from the Amateur Gardening Magazine:"When it comes to shouting about green credentials, chemical companies aren't usually at the front of the queue . But Bayer Gardens plans to change that, by relaunching many of it's popular garden products in bottles made entirely...

You can't - it is from the rats pee............You are more likely to contract it by drinking from a can (which I never did anyway).

Throughout most of last year and so far this year, I've been trialling my modified council issue green waste wheelie bin.Used it as it was the first year I was here. It only half worked.Last spring I drilled lots of breathing holes into it. Small ones up the sides, larger ones for drainage...

I'm a fan of the blackwall composter, easy enough to use. A question how do you I go about receiving an order of Tiger worms at work?? :o Got a feeling I'm going to be looked at with puzzled grins, and talked about, maybe even categorised as a weirdo! Anyway, I use this blackwall compost bin....

A subject that can go on for everThe subject of horse vers cow , fresh vers well rotted etc can and will go on for ever, Its like the thoughts of why are so many people both adult and child so fat these days and suffering all kinds of sickness? The over weight body carrying a mass of weight...

You're not referring a GC member by any chance?

Maintenant, il est en France.

Hi flowerpot, I must admit that i feed the birds every day and i make all kinds of bird nesting house's from ones made out of "wait for it" clay flower pots And they work and look good, to all kinds of shapes and as i say i have them all over the garden, Now feeding the birds, I feed them home...

Hi Freddy Hows you , the only problem would be that they may make a nest , its when people put food waste that attracts rats , but I look at it like this who knows what happens when its dark outside and what the the little critters get up too. Best not to know !!!!! I wouldnt worry plus if...

Hi *Dim* Not so sure your mix would be good as a potting compost for seedlings etc? probably ok when planting shrubs etc..

Ba Dum, Tish.....:D

If Levington's is good enough for Chiltern Seeds, it's good enough for me!

Ideally Len, you need to turn the heap at least once a month.

Thanks guys. At a local compost place near me Biowise they sell 1 ton bags of compost 10mm for £35.00 they call it soil enhancer if I got some of this & riddled the lumps out then mixed it 2/3 compost to 1/3 sharp sand do you think this would be ok. Wicks is a 30 mile round trip & Biowise is...

You can chuck in topsoil from around the raised bed, then fill in around the lowered areas to make paths (fill in with rubble or gravel or similar to make the paths - maybe look on freecycle if you don't have materials to hand)

With the Autumn prunings to compost I started with fresh horse muck/straw and the 4ft open bin is now full and steaming nicely.

Was at the local recycling place and as I was chucking in some woody waste I noticed someone before me had dumped some fuchsias. Being a bit of a make do and mend sort and not liking to see them there I took some cuttings and will try to get them over the winter somehow. I know there are...

Dim, all green, leafy plants are high in nitrogen, that is why you mix them with " brown " material when composting.

And smells great Zig.:D

Thanks Dave for that and some interesting research too. Not sure I would go as far as a testing kit myself.I guess I do mine by gut feel really. The pens get a lot less variety of stuff so I figure it is probably less fertile. I generally save the kitchen scrap compost for my veg and a few...