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potato sack compost

can I use the compost from the potato sack again for the next lot of potatoes? This is my first time growing potatoes and there were not that many of them (is this normal?) but they are delicious! You shouldn't use it for potatoes again to avoid by marypig

15/08/2012 16:28:05

by Chris9

Compost

, are there any holes in your tub, compost needs air to start working.Tip it out somewhere out of the way and let it dry off a bit.Restart your tub with some brush wood, crumpled up paper or cardboard or woody bedding plants that have gone over soil and all by PudseyAnne

20/09/2012 22:59:20

by Palaisglide

Talkback: Spiders in the compost bin

Great post - love all things composting. Compost heap is a thriving eco-system of bacteria, fungi and worms decomposing waste and other predators moving in to eat them up (spiders)Read with interest that you are only getting compost infrequently (10 by TonyCal

16/01/2013 20:36:56

by flowering rose

Composting

My husband's hobby is woodturning which produces a large quantity of wood chips - all types of wood. We use some of them in our compost boxes between the grass cuttings and even supply several friends to do the same. However we still have much by johnmartinlaw

20/05/2013 18:32:44

by nutcutlet

Weeds in my compost

sizeable compost heap. Just woken up to the error on my ways... Can anyone suggest ways to encourage the offending material to compost down fully. I'm thinking - ways to warm up the compost?, perhaps leave for a long time (how long??), anything else by Supernoodle

12/09/2012 12:57:17

by Supernoodle

Green Johanna Composter ???

I have inherited a green Johanna Composter in my new house. I can't see an easy way to get the compost out the bottom. There are a couple of panels at teh bottom but they are screwed in, do I have to unscrew them everytime I want to use it? Cheers by Lee Johnston

27/11/2012 12:28:50

by Great Green Sam

Talkback: Emptying the compost bin

Hi Kate this not about compost but about your Sid,I think he has moved to Ewell I was woken by a blackbird at 5am this morning singing his lovely head off,All I have is worms and slugs in my compost bin.Oldchippy. all l have is weeds in my compost by oldchippy

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08/06/2012 14:06:52

by peteballan

weedkiller in peat-free compost??

I went to my local garden centre yesterday and asked for peat free compost. I was told that they don't stock it as nothing will grown in it because it is full of weedkiller. I find this hard to believe as who would sell compost in which nothing by Caroline6

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05/06/2013 12:40:25

by Berghill

Recycling compost from last years tomato growbags

sharpish but have no potting compost and I'm on a zero budget. The compost hasn;t come to much from last year, Theough the C/N ratio is fine, there isn;t enough heat in there and there's not much humus at the bottom. Neighbours have been putting non by Frank E

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17/02/2013 07:44:25

by Gardening Grandma

Disease and composting

My broad beans first got brown spotted leaves and then the stalks and lower pods went black . 1. What disease have they got? and 2. Should I compost the stalks or will it leave disease in my compost? Thank you for any advice. by janebal

18/08/2012 21:35:34

by janebal

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