Soil conditioner is just another name for garden compost, manure or spent mushroom compost, all of which will improve the condition/structure/fertility of your soil.
Garden centres sell bags of compost labelled 'soil conditioner' to differentiate between it and the various types of potting compost.
Black Gold is just a brand of compost with soil added.
Farmyard manure is what it says it is - if you're buying it in bags from the garden centre it should be well rotted when you get it and it can be dug straight into your soil - it's my first choice to improve my soil!!!
You can also buy 'spent mushroom compost' (look online) and this will also improve the condition of your soil - however it will contain lime so if you garden on acid soil and wish to grow acid loving plants it's not a good idea to use it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What about spent compost from growbags? Someone dumped a load of this near my allotment in the winter. I've already put 4 barrowfuls on my potato plot and one on (well, under) the onions....am I doing the right thing? Looks like remains of tomato or similar plants (roots) in there
Good - that's wot I fort. And what I did. Spread in on top (about 3" deep) then made the trenches for spuds, added compost & planted. Looking forward to lots of yummy Charlotte (reminds me of of a girl I once knew....)
. Happy days. Now I just need to shift the rest of it - will raise the not-very-raised beds at last! About another 30 barrowfuls at a guess! And me with a bad back
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Thanks, Dove.....
Many thanks all.
i have found on a website compost direct 3 things to mix in but which one will prove optimum results? The
soil conditioner
black gold
farmyard manure
Any thoughts?
Hi lee
Soil conditioner is just another name for garden compost, manure or spent mushroom compost, all of which will improve the condition/structure/fertility of your soil.
Garden centres sell bags of compost labelled 'soil conditioner' to differentiate between it and the various types of potting compost.
Black Gold is just a brand of compost with soil added.
Farmyard manure is what it says it is - if you're buying it in bags from the garden centre it should be well rotted when you get it and it can be dug straight into your soil - it's my first choice to improve my soil!!!
You can also buy 'spent mushroom compost' (look online) and this will also improve the condition of your soil - however it will contain lime so if you garden on acid soil and wish to grow acid loving plants it's not a good idea to use it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What about spent compost from growbags? Someone dumped a load of this near my allotment in the winter. I've already put 4 barrowfuls on my potato plot and one on (well, under) the onions....am I doing the right thing? Looks like remains of tomato or similar plants (roots) in there
That'll be fine as a soil conditioner Steve - stir it about, dig it in
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good - that's wot I fort. And what I did. Spread in on top (about 3" deep) then made the trenches for spuds, added compost & planted. Looking forward to lots of yummy Charlotte (reminds me of of a girl I once knew....)
. Happy days. Now I just need to shift the rest of it - will raise the not-very-raised beds at last! About another 30 barrowfuls at a guess! And me with a bad back