On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:21:05 +1000, len gardener
wrote:

g'day hope,

reckon i'd be getting some mushroom compost and adding it in as i go
get it from the farm or partly decomposed from some landscape centres.

aalso add anything like vegetable scraps and shredded pruning as you
go, you will need plenty of organic matter like the mushy and sredding
eetc.,. to keep the worms going. now having said all that the worms
aren't at their best in winter they tend to hyberbate a bit.

but if you sort of rough mix the dirt etc as you go that stuff will
break down by itself anyway, keep it covered with a good layer of
mulch hay, lift the hay each time you want to add more.

other things to consider cow, horse, sheep manure all will go to help.

len

thanks len, that's the kind of thing I was thinking of doing. I
wasn't sure if uncomposted food scraps should go in, but in they go
:-).

Just before I gave up my garden last time, I had about 10 bags of
unrotted chook poo stacked under the tree- well the bags have
decomposed and it's all turned into the most delicious black soil FULL
of worms- needless to say that was the first stuff that I shovelled
into the new bed- the worms gave me the idea of the food scraps.

good to see you still posting here :-)


Hope