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dpack

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Posted: Tue May 08, 18 2:11 pm Post subject:
blood,fish and bone is pretty good for top dressing , rake it in and water it. keep it off the leaves longer term mixture at suitable dilutions

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Wed May 09, 18 10:57 am Post subject:
Thanks DPack.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Wed May 09, 18 11:24 am Post subject:

Feeding the soil will be the best approach long term, but when you need a little fertility boost, you can always whizz in a bottle and fill with water to dilute for a liquid feed that moves toward closing open nutrient cycles

https://richearthinstitute.org/

These folks are doing good work on a large-ish scale, but of course your own private scale doesn't necessarily require the same concerns, as you'll have a better sense of what's being "produced"

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Wed May 09, 18 2:45 pm Post subject:
Cheers for that Slim. I'd read somewhere a few years ago about peeing on your compost heap to help it along.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Thu May 10, 18 5:55 am Post subject:
Worm compost and the liquid from a wormery are also useful, as are nettle and various other brews, but they do stink rather.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Fri May 11, 18 10:12 am Post subject:
Well I'll be setting up three compost bins MR but I guess it will be a while before one of those are ready, so I was after something that I can water in for my planted veg.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri May 11, 18 10:26 am Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

I'd read somewhere a few years ago about peeing on your compost heap to help it along.

Doesn't hurt, & you've got to pee somewhere... How much it helps the process, I couldn't say, but I assume it adds nitrate to the finished product.

More generally, I find it good to start at a corner, get that right and expand from there.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Mon May 14, 18 6:46 am Post subject:
Nettle brew can be made quite quickly, so if you have nettles, rather than trying to compost the tops and burn the roots, rot them down in water and use the resulting brew. As far as I recall, it has to be diluted to the colour of weak tea, but you can check on that on the internet.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 18 9:16 am Post subject:

Thought I'd give you guys an update on how my allotment is coming on.

I've planted runners, beetroot and sweetcorn. I've finally got myself a bucket to be able to drown roots, which on that note, do I just drown the roots or can I do the whole plant? I've got a greenhouse I need to go and pick up, which I should be doing next month. Still no shed yet though. I'm hoping one comes up on Freecycle soon.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 18 9:22 am Post subject:
Looking good

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 18 9:38 am Post subject:
Looks brilliant. Well done.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 18 9:57 am Post subject:
You haven't finished the topiaries yet? Looking good!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 18 1:49 pm Post subject:
nice

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 6:38 am Post subject:
Looks as if it is going well. I tend to try to dry roots out by putting them on top of something so they can't get the soil. In the interests of having room, I would just put the roots in a bucket to drown them.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 18 9:33 am Post subject:
Thank you all. Thanks MR, I'll just go roots only. I'm busy trying to get as much horsemare root out as I can at the minute. What a laborious task it is.

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