Compost extras
Kim outlines some additional ingredients for the best ever all-in-one natural soil improver for the veg patch…
Your soil is the key ingredient in the success of your resilient produce growing efforts so it’s essential to treat it well. Building fertility can be done in a number of ways, and once you have this there is little need for additional fertilisers or soil improvers, other than an annual mulching of compost (aka gardeners black gold) and maybe some manure. It really is as simple as that.
Yes, you can buy or indeed make all manner of fancy supplements to pass onto your plants, but it’s completely unnecessary to do so when your compost is turbo charged. So why not save the cash, time and effort by instead going all out to make your pile the best it can naturally be? Alongside the basic materials (around 50% green waste mixed evenly with 50% brown waste), here’s a look at some of the extra-special ingredients that can also be added to make a most outstanding all-in-one soil improve…
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