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Title: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: martin godliman on August 28, 2012, 09:17:25
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  :)

Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: Digeroo on August 28, 2012, 09:22:17
Courgettes.
Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: Chrispy on August 28, 2012, 09:25:11
All mine gets used in containers for growing some stuff at home on my patio.
Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: elvis2003 on August 28, 2012, 10:56:15
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.
Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: woppa30 on August 28, 2012, 12:05:37
I always seem to get a good crop of beetroot after I have used mine around them...
Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: Stevens706 on August 28, 2012, 12:26:56
I mix mine with multipurpose for the tomatoes
Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: Kleftiwallah on August 28, 2012, 17:44:53

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

Cheers,    Tony.
Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 28, 2012, 19:29:31
I put mine on the spuds.
Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: Paulh on August 28, 2012, 20:51:34
Dig some into the runner bean trench, rest I dig into the ground for the other beans and peas.
Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: martin godliman on August 28, 2012, 21:48:25
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.
Title: Re: How do you use your precious home made compost ?
Post by: Digeroo on August 29, 2012, 05:38:14
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.