Whiled away a long train journey today reading Joy Larkcomb's veggie book, among whose leaves was this simple recipe for home made seed compo.
Layers of fresh comfrey and aged leafmould;
stack lasagne-like in a bag in early autumn;
poke holes in bag;
ready in spring.
Has anyone tried this? I'm very tempted to give it a go, as modules have been a great success and I'm loath to buy it seed/potting compost. Or do you have a simple recipe of your own to share? :P
comfrey rots down really quickly - I put most of mine on the spuds or make a liquid feed with it but leaf mould takes time (no wonder she says 'aged') but perhaps the two together is great - always worth a try but a lot of compost materials could be ready from 'earlyautumn/spring'
Presumably, you could collect aged leaf mould from a local park (allowing for the 'extra' ingredients it may have ...).
How about just waiting till your leaf mould is two years old instead of one ::) That's when it can be used for seed compost. I little nutrition can be mixed in in the form of home compost or allowing your one year old leafmould another year with comfrey.
I remember hearing somewhere that it's good to mix grass clippings with leaf mould to speed up the decomposition process and produce a nutrient rich compost. I'm guessing that it's the same principle with the cofrey, it probably acts like an activator speeding up the breakdown of the leaf mould.
Thank you all for comments, I'll cook up some of this in the autumn then - just happen to have some two year old leafmould ready and waiting :D