How do you use your precious home made compost ?

[martin godliman]

Further to my other thread about mulching it occurs to me to ask what is the best use for home made compost, what do you do with yours ?

A full dalek bin at this time of year yields about a third of the volume come next spring about a small dustbin full, so precious, so dark rich and sweet smelling. I wouldn't want to waste it using it wrongly through ignorance  :)

[martin godliman]

[Digeroo]

Courgettes.

[Chrispy]

All mine gets used in containers for growing some stuff at home on my patio.

[elvis2003]

we have five homemade pallet boxes,it all gets spread over beds as soon as it is ready,we always need the room to create more.

[woppa30]

I always seem to get a good crop of beetroot after I have used mine around them...

[Stevens706]

I mix mine with multipurpose for the tomatoes

[Kleftiwallah]

As Norman Stanley Fletcher said,  "I Dig a hole and bury it"  ;D  Coat ? ? ?

Cheers,    Tony.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I put mine on the spuds.

[Paulh]

Dig some into the runner bean trench, rest I dig into the ground for the other beans and peas.

[martin godliman]

Thanks all for that seems I'm using it as most of yous do, mixed with multi purpose for tomatoes or any veg grown in a pot and I also put some in a trench under my beans, actually my beans have been good this year for a change.


If only one could make a big enough volume to dig into the whole veg plot.

[Digeroo]

I supplement mine, with recycled compost, straw, leaves, grass clippings, comfrey, chicken pellets  and green manure.  Perhaps some manure but still very wary of aminopyralid.  I still do not use my own compost for beans and potato family.