Alice B
Fish Herder
I use pond waste and bunny and chicken waste and leaves and stuff and have a compost pile about 10 ft by 4 ft by 3 ft tall, I raid from the bottom rather than buying anyone else's compost. Before I found out how bad peat harvesting was I'd buy a block of peat 2 or 3 cubic feet compressed, and minerals - epsom salts, lime, a little bit of this and a little of that, and mix it with a whole lot of the stuff from the bottom of my compost pile, and except for peat and minerals I didn't buy any soil products. Worked great. I also recycle my soil in my pots from year to year, adding fresh compost, eggshells, etc.You've reminded me I need to get some tomato seeds as the pack I have expired a couple of years ago. And this year, some decent compost. Last year I used the last of the old compost to plant the seeds and they grew very well on the kitchen window ledge. Then I used Aldi compost to pot them up in planters for outdoors and they stopped growing. I had a few tomatoes but nothing like usual. When I emptied the planters, the roots had not grown into the Aldi compost at all. It's back to Wickes this year.
It's my husband's birthday and we've spent the day with our son, his partner and our 5 month old grandson
