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06-04-2004, 09:46 PM
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Compost for veg bed
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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words: Compost provides little extra nutrition for plants with N-P-K values usually 1-1-1 or less. Its primary value is for 'fluffing up' the soil and making existing nutrients more readily available to plants. That is not true for composted household waste. It provides quite a lot of extra nutrition - God alone knows why the Californians have confused ratios with absolute values, but God alone can understand their 'thought' processes. To repeat, not the same amount as in cow manure or synthetic fertilisers, but quite a lot nevertheless. I bet my household waste compost is quite high on N & P, and the woodash which goes with it, containing a fair amount of ex dried twigs as it does, bumps up the K. Most of the N comes from vegetable matter such as sad cabbage outer leaves, bananananaskins, onion skins, tealeaves and weeds, not forgetting quantities of Rusty's Personal Com****ed Accelerator - while the P is provided by small bones and the remains of kippers, mackerel etc., and any stock or soup which has grown whiskers, etc. Since our equine friends pass (term used advisedly) down my road a lot, the occasional foray with a bucket and shovel richens the mixture a bit. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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