Thanks for the tip charlotte955, sounds like it might be the thing for me. Short on compost but I do have a big pile of top soil I dug out last year that could be sieved and used.
Think this year we will all be collecting tips on what people did before compost in various varieties was so easy to buy.
I managed to get some compost after checking out with friends where they were doing their food shops and if there was any compost left in stores. Aldi, Lidl and Asda had some left near me but limited stock. I got some from Lidl when I did my food shop although their stock was very low, you could only buy three small bags and that was last week.
You could try ringing or contacting stores on line and do your food shop accordingly.
A much more positive approach than some.
It really is easy when you put some thought to it.
We all had horses @GemmaJF but that's so last century now
Indeed! I bring in lots of horse poop each year, we do have a good local supply of well rotted stuff, but there is never enough. I can get it really locally (across the road) but it is too fresh for immediate use. Do you think layering the fresh stuff with grass cuttings and wood chips would get me a good general compost for next year?
If anyone lives in north Cornwall, Trelawney garden centre, Wadebridge, are delivering anything you want free of charge over £50.00, daughters in St Austell, he said order anything you like, compost, plants, lawn feed, nice to here someone is doing all he can in this crisis, although had to close, is doing his best to stay afloat. They have a website if you want to look.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Its got to be worth a go @GemmaJF although I would just add the grass clippings as wood chips take ages to break down. Manure + chopped greens should only take about 4 months to break down unless the stable bedding is wood chips? Course I could just be talking a load of farmyard waste
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Its got to be worth a go @GemmaJF although I would just add the grass clippings as wood chips take ages to break down. Manure + chopped greens should only take about 4 months to break down unless the stable bedding is wood chips? Course I could just be talking a load of farmyard waste
The well rotted stuff comes with it's stable bedding (straw). The fresh stuff has no bedding mixed in. I have a chipper than makes fine chips from things like hedge cuttings and small branches from pruning, almost like a pulp, so perhaps it's worth giving it a go.
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Think this year we will all be collecting tips on what people did before compost in various varieties was so easy to buy.
It really is easy when you put some thought to it.
They have a website if you want to look.