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help! potato emergency!
"0tterbot" wrote in message
i have problems getting _quantity_ of compost... any tips? it took me about 2 years to make enough to make cucurbit mounds this year (which are brilliant!! i love them!!! and i've got volunteers sprouting away like mad, which isn't as much fun as i thought it might be...) Do you have any books by Jackie French? If not they are well worth buying or borrowing from the library. You can just grow plants in piles of weeds if that is all you have - Jackie gave me the idea. I have some BIG weeds in my garden - giant phalaris and cocksfoot and all sorts of other giant clumpers which got away when I had to have cancer treatment and couldn't do any gardneing. These I just dig up and leave lying on the paths (fully develiped seed heads and all) and once teh roots ahve dried out I then just throw them in a pikle somewhere and they often formt eh basis for growing spots. ATM, I've got volunteer spuds growing in weeds - basically the weeds are being used like the hay beds for spuds, but you could also use them for cucurbits. any weeds tha do sprout again get pulled out or buried in more weeds or old hay on top. If I was running a nice neat garden, I'd have composted all these but I currently dont' ahve the space in any of my compost bins so they are bein used in another fashion. i'd LOVE a tumbling composter - i'd make special collections for it if i had one of those. sigh.... I lusted after a tumble composter for years but was put off by the cost. I saw the following at a firend's and she recommended them highly.: http://www.tumbleweed.com.au/pages/d...?page_id=20061 I now have 2 and find them fantastic and they are much cheaper than the ones I was lusting after. Everything my friend said about them is true - great beasties. I think thye were about $150 each. |
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