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  • the green bins for garden waste around here encourage you to add fish and chicken to the bins also when you pull your brambles out of your garden ect where do you put them? in your green bin

    I would never add council waste to my garden

    clueless

  • I'm going to make my own seeding compost this year with MP compost and sand with added perlite

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Gab82 - if you take your garden waste to the tip at Great Northern Terrace, you get a stamp on your card for every visit (not for every bag you take though).  Just ask the man at the entrance for a card and stamp.  Once you have 5 stamps on your card you can exchange it for a bag of compost providing they have some in and it's only during the week I believe.

  • gab82gab82 Posts: 73
    Oh bargain! cheers will pop in tomorrow with my weeds, On the way to tesco! Was thinking of getting some from that mec recycling in swinderby this year it seems quite cheap!
  • I grow alpines from seed and use sieved JI No. 2 plus grit. 2 scoops if JI to 1 of grit.  I get Chick Grit from a Country Store which is very fine and is also useful for topping the pots of seeds.  I have found this mix seems to work for all seeds except vegetables where I use 50% JI no. 2 plus 50% multipurpose compost, both sieved. Hope this is helpful.  It also means you don't end up with lots of bags of different composts.  The sieved rubbish from the compost goes on the garden to lighten our heavy clay soil, so no waste!

  • chickychicky Posts: 10,409

    Bump for Laura

  • ImpHostaImpHosta Posts: 56

    I'm a fan of incorporating perlite and vermiculite into MPC or seed compost - keeps it light and airy, maintains water without getting waterlogged. 

    I find smaller seeds benefit from the finer compost but more robust seeds can cope with the MPC even when you gets bits of twigs!  Ultimately if I don't have seed compost I just use what I've got and it usually works OK - personally I think making sure the seeds are not overwatered (risk of rotting) or left to dry out is more important than the medium they are sown in.

  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    Clueless - the council composting centre is able to get its heaps very hot (60 deg plus) which should kill all the nasties and break down the tough stuff. 

    I only know coz I nearly got a job at one of them once and they showed me round and explained it all.  I'd've had to climb each heap (10m high, 20m wide, 50m long!) every day and measure its temperature to see if it was time to call in the bulldozers to turn it.  Now that's a compost heap!

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