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.In the meantime, hungry birds will make short work of seedheads and do a much better job of finding slug and snail eggs than I ever could. The frogs will bed down in their hibernaculum and among leaf piles, and the mouse, worms, slugs and beetles will stay warm

and garden in Brasil, on heavy clay. Good compost is hard to buy here, so I make my own using all the things mentioned in other comments.I have constructed secure wire bins,to keep out monkeys, snakes and rats. The contents of the bins decompose quickly

and Kate for your prompt responses. I did just shove it in the pot while I wondered what to do. I'll give it a go and if it doesn't work, then the worms can have it to make more compost :- ) Bread wrappers make suitable bags to keep cuttings moist. Perhaps

anything too deeply - especially plants like this violet that is making the effort to grow already.As I have said before I make a lot of compost here but there is never enough to mulch the whole garden so, every other year I buy a trailer load of the stuff

you dig in, so your fleece will not deplete the soil. The worms will be perfectly happy doing what worms do, especially if you have added compost. Happy gardening! I recommend azadas for digging with. A quick web search will find you a supplier

to dig, spread a thick layer of compost, manure or composted green waste (like peat-free compost) over the soil surface. Worms will gradually work this in and the surface layer acts as a mulch to deter the germination of annual weeds.On the veg plot, I

Have done what we can to improve the soil in our garden as it is still really heavy clay soil making it hard work. We have some shrubs to keep us going but need more colour that is long lasting and that needs little looking after. Clay soil

of staff could make the compost off-site.  Perhaps the pupils could bring in shredded paper, peelings (you can wrap them in newspaper and just chuck them in the compost), tea bags and coffee grounds, etc. Or you could start a wormery. Or several. Good luck

have about two barrow's of compost very light in structure from each bin after the worm's have done there work.It's time for a good prune to get thing's back in to some sort of shape. It is debateable, some say digging destroys the soils structure

, they are really beautiful and facinating to watch.Does anyone know if there has been an increase in their numbers recently? I have a slow worm living in my compost bin, but I need to empty the compost out of it onto the garden...I have so much stuff at the end