Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

last year I used the compost from my potato buckets to grow cougettes and pumpkins at the other end of the garden and no adverse effect .

Mustard is a good idea. That time of year there is a possibility that the mustard might be quicker to set flower if it is very dry. So you need to keep an eye on it.

I’m also guessing that the tomato fertilizer isn’t applied until after the fruits start forming, yet the Miracle grow can be applied as soon as the veg has been planted in their final containers.

After brooding about this overnight, I have decided to take this further. Probably not a good plan as after trying to talk to Trading Standards, my blood pressure has gone off the scale and I am now getting a tad less than amiable.Spent ages on hold waiting to speak to an "Advisor" at...

Just to say I turned out my regular sized bin into my new wheelie bin composter today. I used a spade bit to enlarge the series of holes I'd pre drilled.It was revolting and mucky but I got immense satisfaction afterwards. :yess:

Ok thanks it has gone to recycling plant in the garden bin.

I've just opened my 12th 75 litre bag of compost this season and they have been consistently good. I've been buying 4 x 75 litres for £13 at Wickes and shall be off getting another four bags this afternoon when shopping. I haven't found any lumps or foreign bodies in it. To be honest, I...

thanks Becks uff good to hear it works okM.

hi, i have two lily's, one is a pygmy, the other is a large white one!!! both of the lily's had got smaller than normal leaves.i expected the little one to have up to 3" leaves and the large one 5-6" Im just wondering if they need some sort of feed??? thanks

Yes, but leave it to the sheep! ;-)

Recently made a worm bin out of a girt blue barrel. Did have a wooden bin built of scafold planks, but the rats gnawed thru that. Just drilled a load of holes in the bottom, mounted it on a stack of bricks with a metal grill to stop the rats. Put a tray to catch the liquid feed underneath. I...

I shove the leaves in ex-onion sacks and hang them old cold water stotage cisterns. Best to avoid pouring around plants that you're picking from (like leaf beet) as the smell is rather offputting. The remains get used as mulch. It's really good, cheap stuff. Don't be put off making it by...

Cheers Armandii, I will have a look:thumb:

My dad would have a hill pile of chicken manure from the chicken coop. During the growing season of the veggie gardens, if one of the tomatoes was eaten by a night creature, he would throw the rest right on top of the chicken manure pile. And guess what----next spring tomatoe plants would be...

Sorry, repeating myself, but I can't recommend a visit highly enough. Bit of a pity its right on one side of the country rather than slap-bang in the middle!I've been to numerous famous gardens - nothing has "done it for me" as much as this one

My father's walk to work would take him past fields with mole hills and he would come home with a bag full every day to use in his greenhouse borders.I would also collect it to earn extra pocket money.Over the course of many years our back garden soil level ended up about 100mm higher...

Good idea Kristen !:D But as a gardeners we rely on myths and old wives tales not scientific experiments :DIt does seem like we all have a pretty similar feeding regime probablly most of us using Kristens "when I remember" method.

I understand what you're thinking, being "clear" would the compost be more open to disease etc?? I honestly don't think so, Miraflores. If it was put in containers that were clean there shouldn't be a problem, over time I'm sure the natural process of airborne organisms arriving and settling on...

But these aren't ordinary slugs - they are huge .... chickens ???? not in our little estate -

I had young blueberry bushes which died within 3 weeks. They went all brown and died.I now have 4 blueberry bushes, 2 that are 1yr old, 2 that are younger. They were left outside, unprotected. Our temps here reach -15oC. They are close to the walls of our house, but in a sunny spot in the...