Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

I store my shredded leaves and chopped woody stuff in bags and a bin and just add in thin layers to my main 2 year cycle heap. Rots down a treat.

Ah yes, I have a lawn like that already. MrsM fed the lawn with fertiliser in the summer but MrsM doesn't do anything steady or particularly read instructions so we have a very well-fed lawn, in patches. I think she fed it by hand whilst marching at a similar pace to 2nd Battalion Light...

Well, Clueless, I'm not panicking over this Thread, just :runhills::runhills:

Our parish councillors are all excellent

Oh, the worms will dig it in if you don't want to. But the Badgers will throw it everywhere to get at the worms.

I cant mix with soil the is none.. I dug down to the rock, there was not much of anything before now I hve about 14 inches of stuff.... But you are right i will order some kind of PH testing kit from the internet....thank you.

I have managed to better that 33p/kg above - got some for 25p/kg today.Bargain hunting at Homebase today I noticed their 3 kg boxes were reduced to £1.50 plus on BOGOF, so only 75p each. If only it had also been a 10% off day:

I emailed and have got some info: ----------- Thank you for your email. In terms of delivered costs please find a price list attached. Please note these costs are only for products delivered loose and up to a 15 mile radius from our farm (We are near Buntingford, North Herts) We would only...

Our council also outsource :(Ive just had another look on Ebay and noticed alot of people selling coir blocks (the ones that need hydrating). Would this be any good as a compost?

I had that problem 3 years ago, it was a nationwide issue affecting allotments, gardeners and farmers. Yes there are still problems being reported this year, it could be due to people using old piles of FYM that were contaminated or farmers not following the weedkiller instructions. It wiped out...

Yes I do Jane, thanks for the suggestion. I have a good relationship with them as they have supplied materials for my Chelsea gardens

Hello Bluedun. I'd have thought most liquid feeds would be acceptable for foliar feeding. Most will require diluting more than the amount recommended for surface watering. Seaweed fertilisers seem to be quite popular or I know a few people that swear by dilute comfrey tea.Whatever you use it...

I try not to use too much fertilizer on my garden, some soils contain enough P & K naturally without having to add more. It's nitrogen that gets washed out and may need replacing. A lot depends on your soil type, what you are growing and whats been grown in the past. I never use fertilizer on my...

I use Levingtons or westlands john innes #3 ... I mix 1/3 of manure in the planting hole what I find is that with the first few waterings, it's like wet cement after that, drainage is fine ... from the composts that I have used, it is by far the best herewith the info from the ji...

I like B&Q's compost. I've used other brands, and you always find pieces of wood that look like bark, and I've even found glass before!

another site with good topsoil: British Sugar or depending how much you need, you may find that it works out cheaper buying big bags of John Innes #3 some garden centres sell 3 large bags for a tenner at certain times of the year

Hi Mark just one more thing - make sure your soil , compost and sand are as dry as you can get them. Otherwise you end up with a mud pie that sticks to everything ! I scrape about half an inch of soil off the dead patch and break up the surface before I put the mix on. Then water in well. Now...

No probs - just mix in some shredded paper and/or shredded wood. As mentioned, it's too 'green'

try hereRecycle now - Home Composting click on the compost bin with the england flag put in postcode will tell you if your able to get one i have two of the dalek type one from the site and another from a mate who no longer needed his

My father, good gardener though he was, was hopeless as making compost and a black 'ooze' would seep from the bottom of his heap - he had many different names for this gunge .... funnily enough 'tea' wasn't one of them!