What feed did you use with the John Innes, no bought composts have an indefinite amount of goodness, you have to add feeds, whereas, if you pile lots of homemade compost on your ground you will enrich your soil and it will regenerate what it needs because it’s in good condition.
i never put any feed on my ground, just our compost. Anyone that knows me, knows my garden does really well.
So yes, I would argue with that if you didn’t extra feed your plants that you just put in bought compost you can’t use that as a comparison.
please don’t think I’m knocking what you call your hobby, collecting, food processing etc, if that’s what you want to do then so be it. You could be doing a lot worse, as Dove mentioned earlier.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Lyn: From September I fed both John Innes and my own weekly with identical amounts of Tomorite. However, by that time the John Innes plants were only 2/3 the size.
Can I butt in here please . I have this problem and when I had an allotment there was always,according to the old hands there one solution. Wee! I used to take my dog on a lead run there and was always asked if I would let him wee on their piles of compost It is a very old "starter" the ammonia that you buy as a "starter" is called urea you will read on the packet. Same thing ! Crude but very effective apparently, though I haven't tried it myself
herbgarden2: Dog wee is good in compost as long as the mix is 'carbon heavy' as it's alkaline. Female bitch urine only damages the lawn if they go on the grass. Human wee is also OK, just make sure the neighbours aren't looking over the fence.
I use bought non peat compost and top it up with my own rather rough but sieved compost. Then use time to feed with seaweed or if I can get (the range stock it for £2/99)only seaweed . Brilliant results on flowers and vegetables. I have a 4 square planting of veg and flower borders too
One tip, Lidl is good value for some items but once I tried their peat free compost (about 79p!) Absolute rubbish, with shreaded plastic and twigs etc. Quite useless, I suppose you gets wot u pay 4.
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39 per cent more fruit than John Innes, you can't argue with that......!
What feed did you use with the John Innes, no bought composts have an indefinite amount of goodness, you have to add feeds, whereas, if you pile lots of homemade compost on your ground you will enrich your soil and it will regenerate what it needs because it’s in good condition.
i never put any feed on my ground, just our compost. Anyone that knows me, knows my garden does really well.
So yes, I would argue with that if you didn’t extra feed your plants that you just put in bought compost you can’t use that as a comparison.
please don’t think I’m knocking what you call your hobby, collecting, food processing etc, if that’s what you want to do then so be it. You could be doing a lot worse, as Dove mentioned earlier.
Lyn: From September I fed both John Innes and my own weekly with identical amounts of Tomorite. However, by that time the John Innes plants were only 2/3 the size.
Oh, and be careful what you say, I am in Devon.
Oooo! Call in if you’re passing?
Or it true Devonian - oooo aarrrr!
Unfortunately not OC, only been here since 1986, but it is the county I have lived in the longest.?
Can I butt in here please . I have this problem and when I had an allotment there was always,according to the old hands there one solution. Wee! I used to take my dog on a lead run there and was always asked if I would let him wee on their piles of compost It is a very old "starter" the ammonia that you buy as a "starter" is called urea you will read on the packet. Same thing ! Crude but very effective apparently, though I haven't tried it myself
herbgarden2: Dog wee is good in compost as long as the mix is 'carbon heavy' as it's alkaline. Female bitch urine only damages the lawn if they go on the grass. Human wee is also OK, just make sure the neighbours aren't looking over the fence.
I use bought non peat compost and top it up with my own rather rough but sieved compost. Then use time to feed with seaweed or if I can get (the range stock it for £2/99)only seaweed . Brilliant results on flowers and vegetables. I have a 4 square planting of veg and flower borders too
One tip, Lidl is good value for some items but once I tried their peat free compost (about 79p!) Absolute rubbish, with shreaded plastic and twigs etc. Quite useless, I suppose you gets wot u pay 4.