Experimenting with compost

Compost for the garden All gardens of course benefit from adding compost to the beds, and particularly the vegetable garden. I always compost what ever I can. In the past I have just had a bog standard compost heap aided by the additions from SoilFixer and that has done me very well. Last year I bought a hot bin. Sadly despite a …

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Enjoying the garden

Do enjoy the delights of the garden I know there are always jobs that should be done, but we try and make everything as easy as possible. In te afternoons and evenings we tend to sit and enjoy looking at the garden. In the afternoon we enjoy a few cool beer shandies and later on a bottle of wine. There …

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Compost is the fuel for your garden

We have now been gardening here for nearly a year and I did start a compost heap. Now looking at it it doesn’t look terribly wonderful, but we have never stopped adding to it so the top layers are really bound to look like that. So I took the top layer off and started shoveling out the compost and used …

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Compost in the vegetable garden

Treating the soil in a new garden I have created a double bin for the garden compost to make it easier to turn. I can turn the old one into the empty bin before creating the new compost heap. Regular visitors will know that we only moved here in June, so everything was late and done in a hurry so …