On 26/01/2014 17:18, Roger Tonkin wrote:
In article ,
says...
I put ash
from my woodburner, teabags, eggshells, veg peelings,chicken muck on my heap
and after a year into my veg patch.
Seems to work Ok
So do I, except for the egg shells. I've found that
even after 2 years, they do not seem to rot and are
still identifyable.
I don't compost egg shells, either. Apart from their tendency to
persist rather than break down, I worry it would make the compost too
alkaline for use with acid-loving plants.
Egg shells are probably better kept to use crushed around the base of
Clematis, providing snail protection as well as increasing alkalinity.
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Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay