Some figures from yesterday's gardening course at Barnsdale - news to me, passing on for added interest ;)
Latest research on composting shows best results from raising temp to 50C over 3-4 weeks. Previous recommendation was to 70C for shorter period. It's now deemed safe to put veg waste with grey mould into the compost heap
96% of the nutrients that plants thrive on are derived from ... air! Gardeners obsess with the other (very important) 4%
It takes ten rows of onions/garlic to mask the smell of one row of carrots from cabbage root fly
A pair of nesting bluetits will collect between 7,000 and 15,000 caterpillars before their brood leaves the nest
A bat will eat up to 3,500 insects per night :o
Especially the last two - makes you wonder how they found out ::)
wow, what interesting numbers.
Quote from: supersprout on October 12, 2006, 08:23:07
Some figures from yesterday's gardening course at Barnsdale - news to me, passing on for added interest ;)
A pair of nesting bluetits will collect between 7,000 and 15,000 caterpillars before their brood leaves the nest
A bat will eat up to 3,500 insects per night :o[/i]
Especially the last two - makes you wonder how they found out ::)
They probably got Bill Oddie onto it with the BBC Springwatch webcam crew.
moonbells
Trouble is, the Tits are never active when the brassica cats are!
from the state of some of the veg through caterpillars, it makes you wonder how many there are if birds are eating them in that volume