Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling

Hi Compost Maker I agree with Marley and DaveThe Book way Chicken, pigeon, and other bird manure is good for seeds, flowers and fruits, because their manure is rich in phosphorus and nitrogen, It is best made into a liquid compost by mixing it into ten...

I've used it before several times and had great results everytime, no complaints, certainly not for 99p!

Hi Varallo as a general rule of thumb its best if left for approximately 6 months then spread over the ground at 3cm deep and then forked in.

I have used winter tares and that grows quite well overwinter. Another one is winter rye and this year i tried forage pea, but the cold winter seems to have damaged it - the winter tares is OK though and it is a nitrogen fixing plant so I am growing it where the brassicas will go.

Thanks from me too.

Don't put compost on the onion bed stilllearning, the other crops are greedy feeders and will appreciate your compost but onions don't like too much nitrogen.

I used homebase stuff last year and got very mixed results from it; i also found a local supplier for compost so will be using them from now on - cheaper, free delivery and the compost is brilliant!

I cannot see the point. You are using cold composting methods as most gardeners do. they might get warm straight after putting green stuff in but it does not last long and most rotting takes place at normal temperatures - takes about a year. For hot composting you need a very large heap - we...

Just as well it wasn't a power lead they'd chewed. You have had some hot cross buns :hehe::hehe::hehe:

I did get the men of the household to pee into the composter , but they kept leaving the lid up!

Why not just walk down to the allotments and ask. There will probably be someone who has an open bean trench and wants something to put in. When we had a rabbit I made the best compost ever. I used to mix it with lawn mowings during the spring and summer.

Forget the mesh. Rats will just dig under. If you don't put cooked food in then it wont attract rats. Leaves are high in Carbon so need mixing 50:50 with soft, nitrogenous material such as uncooked kitchen waste ( peelings etc) or lawn mowings. Soft stuff on its own just becomes a smelly mess so...

.I try to buy fertilizers in 25 kg bags as it works out much cheaper, thouGh it is getting more difficult to find anywhere that actually stocks them. Most places sell them in poxy small cartons or now they have discovered plastic buckets, but still the cost is extortinate.Anyway this...

When we took out our last hedge which was just a bit smaller than yours, I logged the main trunks for fuel and burned the rest (when wind was right to avoid neighbours) and saved the ash for spring feed on the fruit trees. When I took out our first hedge I borrowed a heavy duty chipper and used...

Thanks Flinty,I had thought of avoiding those areas where I intend to plant root crops, for the reasons you said, but it's good to have confirmation.I thought that it would be okay for all other crops (other than root vegetables) but I wasn't sure. The manure on the rest of the ground...

So its not as tough as they try to make out! I think I will save my money and keep with whatever stick comes to hand.

A good find! When I was working, suppliers would often send in stands to display new lines, I always binned them (still in their cartons) as I didn't like them cluttering up the aisles (nor did the customers). I'd have the lines incorporated into the correct section. I often "recycled" some...

I had the same problem earlier in the season ,I am now using levington Multi Purpose and happy with that.

Yeah think ill get some, put it in an turn the compost so it gets to it all. Want to get the slugs attracted back to it again, it keeps them away from the rest of the garden lol

Hey, this looks very impressive (you may need to be careful about run-off from the compost bins into the stream by the way). But my wife bought me a whizz-bang modern Aeorbin 400 compost bin for my birthday. This converts stuff much, much faster than the trational way.... churns out first class...