You can use the grindings for mulch, or let the pile compost for use later as a soil amendment. |
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And it'd be a whizz around the garden, shifting the compost heap and the like. |
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He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough. |
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I brought two pepper plants which were still fruiting into the house, and put the rest on the compost heap. |
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A window box filled with compost and direct-planted will become completely waterlogged unless there are drainage holes. |
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The compost is stacked in huge heaps or windrows, which are turned once a week. |
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Seed is cheap, so insert some round the edge of a largeish pot of good compost, sit back, and watch the wing-like shoots emerge. |
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Only their fall and burial in the compost pile of materialism remains for recitation. |
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Sprinkling a thin layer of topsoil or compost over the lawn will also help. |
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John is a man on a mission to persuade more of us to compost our garden and kitchen waste. |
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The school now has two compost bins and a wormery in place to cater for the volume of waste. |
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However, there is no doubt a wormery is a very popular way of producing wonderful compost and getting rid of your household waste. |
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By putting it through a wormery or composter you not only avoid these emissions but get piles of top-grade crumbly compost too. |
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We put everything into our wormery, which turns into compost, and we also have special composting bins for garden waste. |
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Underworld yammers on and on about bloodlines and supernatural compost when it should be kicking it up a notch in the action department. |
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The herbs chamomile, valerian, yarrow, nettle, comfrey and dandelion can help make a success of your compost heap. |
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Volunteers will be given a free compost bin along with a small kitchen collection bin. |
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Plant each clump in soil that has been amended with compost and a balanced fertilizer. |
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Don't amend the soil with compost or other fertilizers unless your soil is so poor it won't even grow weeds. |
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Choose a site in full sun and amend the soil with all-purpose fertilizer and 4 inches of compost or well-rotted manure. |
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Before replanting, amend the soil by digging in compost or well-rotted manure and a handful of balanced fertilizer. |
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Acidic soil can be amended by the application of compost and a handful of lime at the time of planting. |
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If you have a sandy or clay type soil, amend it with well rotted livestock manure or aged compost. |
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Before replanting, amend soil with lots of fresh compost or organic matter. |
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Less than ideal soils can be amended with compost, manure or other organic matter mixed into the top 12 to 18 inches of soil. |
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She shaped the space with graceful curves, amended the soil with compost, and installed drip irrigation. |
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A cultivator is also useful for working amendments such as compost or manure into the soil. |
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By tilling and mixing in amendments such as compost, you make the soil crumbly enough for roots to penetrate. |
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If you want to add any amendments, such as compost or peat moss, work them into the soil. |
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In most areas, there's no need to add amendments such as compost to the soil at planting time. |
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The ground had to be dug over, dressed with some compost and lastly covered with the topsoil. |
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Behind the bungalow, a lawned area led down to a compost heap and a small ditch at the bottom of the garden. |
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From that point, we could talk about feeding the soil with compost and diverse cover crops. |
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Mix a shovel full of compost, a handful of bone meal, and a little Dolomite lime to the soil which was removed. |
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There was also machinery to buy a large shredder, a loader and a tractor attachment to turn the compost. |
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Cut off dead stalks and leaves from perennials, then top-dress the beds with 2 to 3 inches of compost and a sprinkling of fertilizer. |
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Hose it down to reduce the salt levels and use as a mulch on plants such as asparagus or add it to the compost heap. |
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Where the plants were growing runners I pegged these down into potting compost with unbent paper clips and watered them. |
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Most organic materials supply a wide range of the other nutrients needed by compost organisms and plants. |
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One University of North Texas graduate student is using black fly maggots to compost that garbage. |
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Equipment used to prepare compost tea must be sanitized before use with an approved sanitizing agent. |
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Add the organic matter from your own compost bin to save money and avoid being a drain on the nation's landfills. |
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How much gumption does it take to pillory the malfeasant editors, reporters, and publisher who turned to compost ages ago? |
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The excavated soil should be mixed with well-rotted organic matter or a tree-planting compost before backfilling the hole. |
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Dig in some compost or well-rotted horse manure and rake level, removing any large stones. |
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Fork over bald areas, add some compost and then sow seed or patch with a piece of turf and water in well. |
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If you do not compost at home the shredded paper can be put in the paper bank at your nearest recycling facility. |
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Covering bare soil with a generous mulch of stable manure or compost is usually only practical for small areas. |
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I was going to repot the pepper seedlings, but having felt the temperature of the compost I thought better of it. |
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Outside, the treated material was covered by a thick layer of tree waste, like bark and sawdust, to remove odours from the compost. |
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The seedlings you remove can go straight on the compost heap, or in the case of some veg, such as lettuce and beets, the thinnings can be eaten. |
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Today's finishing schools are fringed in white sand and involve swilling out compost toilets and building bashas. |
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Here is a meadowlark atop a regal walnut, next to it a young nectarine tree girdled with compost. |
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Similarly, it is always best to use new potting compost when sowing seeds or transplanting seedlings. |
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Fieldfare and redwings feed on the mounds of apples, Blackbirds and thrushes turn over the compost heap. |
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Making two or more passes with the tiller helps blend the compost with the topsoil and break up any clumps of material. |
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The tiller will break up the ground and get it ready for planting, chop up any debris, and help mix in fertilizer and compost. |
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Cardboard collected from local companies is shredded and used for animal bedding on the farm and turned into compost. |
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Then, of course, stress is laid on avoiding the construction of septic tanks, compost pits and drains near the wells in houses. |
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They were then composted together with other green waste at the council's compost site. |
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Finally I took pity on the leaf beet plants outside which were still looking rather sad, and repotted them into fresh compost. |
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Or perhaps to set up revegetation programs, there's no reason why you couldn't use a metalliferous plant material as your mulch or your compost. |
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The monthly turnover is about four tonnes and she has stocked three tonnes of compost. |
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Good compost is a must for every garden, and all of your plants will benefit from a good top dressing with this rich, organic material. |
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In combination with clay minerals and good compost, sea shell lime will ensure a sumptuous plant increase. |
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They set the asparagus roots 6 to 8 inches deep in the trench and covered the crowns with 2 inches of compost. |
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We have a worm farm and compost bin, have planted fruit trees and vegetables and plan to plant up an area of natives next week. |
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The scheme is designed to encourage residents to take part in council schemes, which include a compost bin offer and nappy laundering services. |
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But once the container hits the backyard compost pile or municipal landfill, it biodegrades in only a few weeks. |
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All those vegetable trimmings, potato peelings and veggies from the table can all go on the compost heap. |
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Soldiers still moaned from within the human compost, most begging for water or death. |
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They will be taken to a waste site in Bury where they will be shredded and prepared as compost for farmland across Lancashire. |
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Timber would be shredded to produce wood chips for the production of mulch, chipboard or compost. |
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Also, the more chopped or shredded your ingredients are, the easier it will be for the microorganisms to break down the ingredients into compost. |
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Ants love sandy soil so if you add plenty of humus, such as compost, you'll end up with dark, moist, friable soil and no ants. |
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The compost can then be stored until you need it in an old dustbin, ready for use in pots, tubs, boxes and patio containers. |
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Top-dress lightly with sand, topsoil, and sifted compost, and keep the lawn well watered until the new sprouts emerge. |
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Planting soil should be amended with slow-release organic nutrient sources, such as bone meal, blood meal, compost and composted manure. |
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It is hoped that 1,600 tonnes of garden waste, which would normally find its way into landfill sites, will be turned into compost. |
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Your compost heap could be vastly improved by covering it with a 9in layer of grass mowings and putting a cover over it. |
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A yearly mulch of quality compost is all the fertilization your grapes should need. |
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He stakes and cages the tomatoes, mulches the beds with grass clippings, and makes compost. |
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Kitchen garbage, like the parts of vegetables that are not eaten and discarded fruit skins, may be utilized as compost. |
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To rebuild topsoil, organic farmers plant green manures, make compost and undersow crops with clover to increase organic matter in soil. |
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Also, if the rain washes the liquor or compost off the fields into the waterways, it won't deplete oxygen the way fresh unfermented manure does. |
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I use a mixture of commercial potting mix and compost with extra additions of perlite, bonemeal, and poultry grit. |
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I compost, fertilize and add bonemeal to the area after the plants have been removed each year. |
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For the past two years Dave has been working on a system of growing the mycorrhizae on a host grass plant in small beds of compost. |
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When growing Mediterranean herbs, such as myrtle or bay, in containers, it is best to use a soil-based compost with extra grit. |
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The garden will include a weather station and compost bins, plus bird and animal feeders. |
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For those without compost heaps, their bins will be thoroughly unsanitary after a fortnight. |
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Please put boxboard in your trash, take it to Ecology Action's downtown drop off center for recycling, or compost it in your back yard. |
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Shredded paper can be added to compost, so too can pine needles and gum leaves. |
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Rinse or soak them thoroughly in fresh water to remove excess salt before adding them to your compost pile. |
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Tackle shops sell pots of brandlings but they can be gathered quite easily from manure and compost heaps. |
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You can throw your cuttings as well as dried leaves in your compost bin, which will break down into a nutrient-rich compost for next season. |
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Camellias like acid soil so plant in a clay pot filled with ericaceous compost. |
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After plants stop producing, most people pull up their broccoli and toss it onto the compost pile. |
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Bulky organic manures can be supplied through farmyard manure, farm compost, town compost, night soil, sludge, green manure, etc. |
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The lid has 49 corresponding spikes which make perfectly central holes in the compost for you to sow your seeds in. |
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The compost created at the Compton Bassett plant will be named Warrior Compost and will be available to the public in bags or in bulk. |
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I am a turkey grower in Central Texas who markets manure and produces compost for retail sales. |
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But we are noticing a visible difference in the garbage we buy for compost. |
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To spread compost in the vineyard, Roth recommends a wet-lime spreader, which many growers already have. |
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Then, after the fungi have had time to multiply, farmers would apply the colonized soil in manure spreaders along with their compost. |
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The compost is then used by the children's gardening club in tending the vegetable and flower plots at the 123-pupil school. |
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Bill suggests checking with churches, school cafeterias or even restaurants for waste you can use in your compost pile. |
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If water stands in the area, try to improve drainage with sand and compost. |
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Thinner roots are planted horizontally in trays of compost and potted up individually once shoots have developed. |
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As the haulms grew they were top dressed with the same compost as before and supported by canes and string. |
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The composting facility became operational in March this year and so far, 15 tonnes of vermi compost has been sold. |
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A few buckets of well-rotted garden compost or mushroom compost can also be added, which will help to lighten heavy soil. |
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The directive does require farmers to supply pigs with rooting materials such as straw, hay, wood, sawdust, compost or peat. |
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Dig materials such as straw, peat, compost, and leaves into the soil, or lay them on as mulch. |
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It is found on a variety of substrates containing cellulose including paper and plant compost. |
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So I've brought some compost inside to warm up and will repot the peppers some other time. |
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In my house there's a compost bin, a box for tins and bottles, a plastic container, a holder for plastic bags, and an old newspaper corner. |
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Handy hints are given on what to do should, for example, pests get into the compost heap. |
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The rule here is, if they overgrow your pond, throw the excess onto your compost pile. |
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Most get shined by both jazz and hip-hop heads and end up on the compost heap. |
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Beds can be lightly hoed and covered with a mulch of spent mushroom compost, chipped bark or cocoa shells. |
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Plant it in an area which receives full sun, digging it into soil which has been improved with the addition of compost and manure. |
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Or supercharge your compost pile and create an earthworm population explosion. |
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It also installed a compost bin for kitchen waste, grass cuttings, newspapers, teabags and wood chippings. |
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The compost produced will be made available for purchase along with wood chippings from wood that is collected. |
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With this preparation I continued to humect the compost every other evening. |
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I don't drive, so the only way to get two big bags of compost and some plants home is to borrow a trolley and hump it up the hill! |
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Mature compost is a complex organic material that has been transformed into stable humus by microorganisms. |
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The final product, humus or compost, looks and feels like fertile garden soil. |
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He likes making compost heaps, and digging the resulting stuff into vegetable and flower patches. |
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Remember to mix grass clippings with other garden wastes in the compost heap to avoid them becoming slimy, stagnant and smelly. |
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A common soil mix is one part sphagnum peat moss or composted bark or compost, one part vermiculite or perlite, and one part sand. |
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Bark, rotted manure, leaf mold, peat moss and compost are good choices for organic ingredients. |
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Add humus in the form of compost, peat moss or chopped leaves to improve clay or sandy soil. |
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When planting trees and shrubs, the more compost, peat moss and other amendments you can mix into the ground, the better. |
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Well-rotted manure, leaf mold, peat moss or compost are just a few of the organic materials that can be added to your soil. |
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The sacks are for garden waste and kitchen peelings which will be collected by the district council for recycling and turning into compost. |
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And I rely on him to take potato peelings to the compost bin once a fortnight. |
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They use compost and cover crops like crimson clover and mustard to replenish the soil. |
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These specialized fertilizers include compost and processed animal manure pellets. |
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This is a real country garden, with hens running riot in the orchard and a cockerel lording it on the compost heap. |
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The mix we use contains compost, peat, perlite, rock phosphates, blood meal, calcite clay and gypsum. |
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There's a little greenhouse, there's a permaculture area for planting, there's a space for a compost heap. |
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The compost, including the addition of coir can then be used to replace the peat normally used in a garden. |
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Also, a discussion of some of the newer organic materials included in plant media, e.g. coconut coir and compost, would be appropriate. |
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Cotswold District Council is distributing wheelie bins so that garden waste can be collected and turned into compost. |
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One solution increasingly being tried is conversion of bio-degradable waste to organic compost. |
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He said the compost in turn then goes to feed the flowers around the school. |
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His test fermenter convinced him it would be possible to turn organic wastes into fuel and compost. |
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I watered the planting area for each one with several litres of water, then added some fresh compost. |
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She weeded fastidiously, removing the plants and roots before they came to maturity, and preparing compost from them. |
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Make a cut below a leaf joint and dip the cutting in hormone rooting powder before inserting it into an open peat-free compost and perlite mix. |
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Vine weevil, the gardener's worst enemy, is often properly controlled by chemical compost additives. |
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It may be wise to add peat moss or some form of compost to the dirt in the hole before planting the rose. |
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Using a pencil, tease out the young plant from the seed tray and make a hole in the compost deep enough to take the roots of the seedling. |
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Mr Tincombe has tried various traps and boarded up holes the rats have got through, but says they are attracted by a compost bin next door. |
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That is why good sanitation begins with raking up apple leaves in the fall to either compost or bury deep in the woods. |
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But sometimes compost isn't enough, in which case artificial products such as wetting agents may have to be used to treat the area. |
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In about 3 months the worms should have changed the bedding and food wastes into compost. |
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When it's time to use it, set the sifter on top of your wheelbarrow or garden cart and shovel some compost into it. |
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I departed for the compost heap happy that I was almost done cleaning the chicken coop. |
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If the soil is particularly poor or has had problems with compaction, add at least 2 inches of peat moss, leaf compost, or other organic material. |
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Rotted cow manure, compost, shredded sphagnum, granulated peat moss, sawdust and ground corncobs are some materials that may be worked thoroughly into the soil. |
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The company recycle all green waste into an excellent garden compost. |
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I already compost my garden and kitchen waste in my two compost bins. |
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In my small garden I have three compost bins and two water butts so I do not lack facilities to dispose of vegetable waste, merely space to accommodate an unwanted bin. |
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The quintessence permeates the compost, soil and plants like astral perfume, and affects plant growth with subtle yet powerful forces of the cosmos. |
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With just a little bit of simple joinery one could make a Shaker-style wooden seed box to replace the modern plastic version, and a soil tamper to firm the compost. |
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To assure a robust flower spire, feed plants in late winter or early spring with a balanced dry fertilizer or a top dressing of well-rotted manure or compost. |
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Any compost containing grass clippings is used for field crops only. |
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As soon as the ground can be worked, dig or till compost or other organic matter into the soil to prepare flower and vegetable beds for spring planting. |
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Even back in my days as a horticultural hooligan, I only ever used peat to create a home-made compost for sowing seeds, never for potting plantlets or decorating borders. |
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There is absolutely no manure or animal products in my compost. |
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Composting led to vermicomposting which led to compost tea production. |
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Figuring out whether to throw out your lipstick-stained coffee cup in recycling, trash, or compost can be truly maddening. |
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Add moisture retaining granules and slow release fertiliser to the compost and gradually harden the plants off before putting them outside completely at the end of the month. |
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We could turn potato peelings into compost instead of landfill. |
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Place broken crocks in the bottom of the planting container to ensure good drainage and add the compost mixture to the level of the base of the lowest layer of bulbs. |
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Ensure that you prepare a good planting site by incorporating compost into the soil before you plant, as hellebores enjoy a moist soil rather than one that dries out quickly. |
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Though our smaller processors may not be able to sell offal as the larger plants do, they can certainly bypass rendering plant fees and even sell the finished compost. |
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York Rotters, a band of council-trained volunteers, showed festival visitors how they can reduce household waste by up to a third by purchasing a discounted compost bin. |
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Other offensive odours can come from areas such as the refrigerator, garbage bins, including indoor compost buckets, musty drawers and even shoes. |
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So I laid some permeable membrane down to stop the weeds from growing upwards and emptied the contents of the big compost bin into the smaller compost bin. |
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As usual, don't rely on my accuracy in this, but from what I can gather the grass is bailed up in what looks like a big bin liner and left to slightly compost. |
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If you can't afford topsoil, you can amend the soil with compost. |
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You will have noticed that the number of television channels is growing faster than a triffid on a compost heap, meaning more choice for advertisers and viewers. |
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If you find any brandlings in the compost as you fork through it, the worms with dark red rings, you could save those and introduce them into your new compost pile. |
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At the end of that time the rubbish is sieved, metal objects are removed with magnets and the immature compost is placed onto the maturation floor. |
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In the morning, Michael and I dumped five-gallon buckets full of compost, forest loam, sand, and leaf mold onto the root cellar's cold cement floor. |
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Both plants love rich, moist, well-drained soil, so amend the soil before planting with compost or well-rotted manure and a handful of superphosphate. |
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The plants were grown in pots using a soil-less compost of peat and sand. |
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Check for other possible breeding areas, such as slow compost heaps, damp bedding in dog kennels, chicken pens and yards, rubbish piles, and leaking septic pipes and outlets. |
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This means that things from the gutter didn't just biodegrade into the past's oozy compost heap, but stayed cut out, sharp and clear, to be resurrected in some kind of future. |
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The compost can be used as mulch around plants, as a top dressing over your lawn which can fertilise the soil, or as a soil improver in vegetable or flower beds. |
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We found the netting, and added a cluster of potted hebes and one further laurel to our plant collection, along with three huge plastic sacks of compost and mulch. |
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All year long I lug a small green compost bucket full of leftover scraps, carrot peels, tea leaves, and dead flowers out to the compost bin behind our shed. |
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The living roof itself is a compost based system, usually a base of straw left to decompose within which native or introduced plants can then take root. |
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Could Jasper Conran compost, trugs and trellises be the next big thing? |
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Termites tend fungus gardens, leaf cutter ants make underground compost heaps and many species of other ants tend and protect aphids for their honeydew. |
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I also gave the potted plants a bit more compost and a top dressing of bark chips to smarten them up, keep down the weeds and help with water retention. |
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Give all fruit a mulch of manure or compost, or dead leaves. |
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I tend to use our compost in spring, on beds which weren't manured over winter but which could do with a wee boost in preparation for the season's sowing or planting. |
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Penstemon seed, for example, can be lightly scattered over the surface of a tray of damp compost and covered with a thin layer of compost or vermiculite. |
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This means forking in as much compost as you can spare and tossing in some pelletised poultry manure or granular complete fertiliser before you plant. |
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Now is also a good time to start making your own home compost from fruit and vegetable peelings and fallen leaves or branches strewn around the garden. |
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Use compost or composted fir bark approximately 30 percent by volume. |
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Spread compost or manure on unplanted areas or sow fall-sown cover crops, such as clover, Austrian field peas, fava beans, vetch and winter wheat. |
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Red worms or red wigglers will turn those banana peels and apple cores into rich compost that can be used next spring. |
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The thickness of a layer of thatch decreases over time as the surface gradually turns to compost and is blown off the roof by wind and rain. |
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If covered with sand, it will compost to form a fertile bed where annual coastal flowers and marram grass will thrive. |
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Other seaweed may be used as fertilizer, compost for landscaping, or a means of combating beach erosion through burial in beach dunes. |
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A thick mulch of chipped bark or compost will also make it much easier to pull out recently germinated seeds in the spring. |
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Nutrient inputs can be chemical inorganic fertilizers, manure, green manure, compost and mined minerals. |
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The fungal mycelium grows in compost with a layer of peat moss on top, through which the mushrooms come out, a process called casing. |
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From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence. |
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At first I tried to handle the seasonal winnowings with a large three-bin compost device. |
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The popularity of cut price compost bins last year convinced the council to repeat it this year along with low cost water butts. |
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The breakdown of compost, in releasing humic acid, has an acidifying affect on the soil. |
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Both kinds will produce compost, but most gardeners prefer aerobic bacteria because they work much faster. |
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I harvested two more bags of great wormery compost from them before moving them. |
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A wormery handles more types of waste, breaks them down quicker, and requires less attention than a compost bin. |
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Coir fibre from the Coconut Palm, Cocus nucifera, now seen as a potting compost is made into ropes. |
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Half-fill a seed tray with compost then plant a low-growing rock plant that looks just like a freshly mown lawn, such as Raoulia haastii. |
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The Kamilaroi Nursing Home, located next to Lane Cove Public School, now also put their scraps in the school compost. |
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Produces mulch that can be used for general ground cover, landscape mulch, compost or animal bedding. |
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This is processed to 600 kilotonnes of compost, and the end-product partially exported while over annual national consumption. |
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All master composters have two days' training on how to compost before starting their activities. |
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The easiest way to turn organic material into garden food is to make a compost heap. |
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We put ours in the compost heap, but spreading neat seems to have real benefits. |
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Start a compost heap now and by the autumn you should be enjoying your own purpose-made soil. |
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In this age of recycling, there can be no better time to start your own compost heap. |
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Repot into fresh compost, prune back and water frequently to encourage new growth. |
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I repotted the eucomis into new compost and now the new flower spikes look as though they're about ready for take off. |
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Rooted cuttings from last summer or autumn should also be repotted, adding some slow-release fertiliser into the compost mix. |
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Keep adding any suitable material from the garden and kitchen to your compost heaps through the winter. |
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It often does well near compost heaps, making the most of the rich run-off in the soil. |
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Some compost heaps have too much green stuff in them, such as grass cuttings or leafy weeds. |
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Once the compost has dried out completely, it is extremely difficult to rewet it again. |
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If you have room, make two compost heaps so that you are filling one while the other is rotting down. |
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Mixing green and brown materials as recommended, I filled the black recycled compost rings given out at the composting class. |
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Pot up cyclamen corms in moist compost with the top of the corm slightly above the compost surface. |
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Native to southern Africa, these perennials, which grow from corms, thrive in well-drained soil amended with compost. |
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The cafeteria uses a food pulper instead of a garbage disposer to compost kitchen food waste. |
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I have hard clay soil and will rototill in the compost to loosen the soil and provide nutrient amendment. |
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As a rule, you should apply a two-inch layer of compost to the soil surface prior to rototilling to a depth of 4-6 inches. |
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Hamamelises prefer acidic conditions and perhaps would be best grown in a pot with ericaceous compost. |
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These include peat moss, animal manures, shredded leaves, other mulches, compost, recycled garden and household waste. |
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Researchers have produced a special range of plastic that produces a high quality finish but also easily biodegrades in compost. |
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When you are planting things, just add compost, don't add lots of bonemeal. |
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I've never even seen a water vole before, but apparently I have got a field vole living in my compost bin at home. |
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The ones that didn't get eaten are making their way to the compost heap along with our pea haulms, which contribute loads of nitrogen. |
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Growing up in Meridian, all the gardeners we knew were forever chattering on about things like cutworms and compost. |
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Leaves raked onto a tarp are easily dragged to the compost bin, and a tarp will carry much more than a wheelbarrow, with much less effort. |
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Sow a quarter-inch deep in pots or trays of good, free-draining seed compost and cover with a sprinkling of vermiculite or compost. |
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But corncockle, godetia, gypsophila, candytuft, bottle diagonally from top away from the handle, to create handy compost scoop. |
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Use John Innes No2 compost, with extra grit added for good drainage, and dwarf plants such as mossy Saxifrage, Sempervivums and Dianthus. |
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These campuses feed their excess to soup kitchens, pig farms or let it rot in the compost. |
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Coventry people are being urged to muck in with a scheme to turn kitchen and garden waste into compost. |
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Illegal immigrants Chaun Yap and Fang Zheng were caught after a massive delivery of compost raised suspicions. |
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Healthy plants in beautifully mulched beds make happy customers, another benefit mushroom compost brings to landscape professionals. |
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Thick evergreen leaves such as holly and cherry laurel need to be shredded and added to the normal compost heap. |
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Place the pot beside your spider plant and peg the plantlet into the compost, leaving it attached to the parent plant until roots appear. |
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If you have any plants that are potbound and bulging around the edges, now's the time to repot with fresh compost. |
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Clean around globe artichokes, lightly fork the ground and topdress with compost prior to soaking. |
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Just topdress them with the same compost every autumn or spring and fork it over lightly. |
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Pot up with compost and topdress with a layer of cactus dressing or very small gravel. |
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Pot up houseplants showing signs of being root-bound and topdress large containers with fresh compost. |
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I add grit to a few handfuls of compost for the bottom of the pot and a handful of pearlite to the top. |
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We filled the raised beds and cinder block holes with good dirt, and maintained them with compost and organic amendments. |
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Add in 2 to 4 inches of compost, aged manure, or peat moss to the top 8 inches of soil and follow up with a fresh layer of mulch. |
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Push the seeds partially into seeding compost in April, water, and they'll be transplantable by summertime. |
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This high grade humus compost is used to increase resistance to sicknesses in the soil. |
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All you have to do is sow the seeds in a pot of compost, cover with cling film and leave them to sprout indoors on the windowsill. |
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Remove seed heads from clivias and pot up into the next size pot using good houseplant compost. |
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Or the pub which has introduced a wormery to compost kitchen scraps and leftover food and uses the compost on the allotment where they grow their own fruit and veg. |
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Shokalu AO, Ojo AO, Ezekiel ADT, Akintoye HA and JO Azeez Comparing the use of Tithonia diversifolia and compost as soil amendments for growth and yield of Celosia argentea. |
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Dig plenty of compost into clay or sandy soil to improve its structure. |
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I have heard that the common red wiggler, sold by so many, is good at eating manure and making compost and apparently okay as fish bait, but it won't live in your garden. |
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Nepenthes will grow in orchid compost or in pure Sphagnum moss. |
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She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil. |
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In autumn, spike the lawn to aerate it, rake out old dead grass and topdress with compost then feed with low nitrogen lawn feed to toughen grass up for the winter. |
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If no one has picked your crops, you are likely to come home to a large amount of stringy, tough runner beans, which will need to be put on the compost heap. |
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The canals, compost heaps, and tenfoots of O'Brien's poems recall the mouldy suburban landscapes of Raymond Briggs's Fungus the Bogeyman, and no less than in Briggs. |
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Prepare a new pot by making a soft cushion with fresh houseplant compost. |
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Fruitfly and stinky compost just aren't very glamorous, are they? |
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Dress figs under glass with bonemeal and compost over the root run. |
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After flowering, prune back to about six inches during autumn, gently fork in a little bonemeal around the plant and give a good mulch of well-rotted compost. |
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If you want to plant shrubs underneath, prepare the planting hole by making it bigger than the root ball of the plant and incorporate compost and bonemeal. |
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Both French and runner bean seed can be sown either direct in the cropping position or, if preferred, into small pots of compost and placed in a greenhouse or cold frame. |
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Each year I collect copious amounts of organic matter from the surrounding forest which is rototilled into the soil and of course we make and use compost. |
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It thrives on compost and natural fertilizers brewed from comfrey or seaweed and uses only rain, natural groundwater or wastewater purified through a system of reed beds. |
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Use compost or well-rotted manure to topdress borders or for digging in. |
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If you compost your grass clippings, you can improve your soil. |
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Although Pollack has only a small patch of lawn in his back yard, he has created a spongily fragrant compost out of his neighbors' grass and his own leaves and prunings. |
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All you need to do is pull the bulblets apart and plant them in compost. |
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In the beginning of the 1990ies, Pungas and a Finnish company FT-Transport OY started experiments for turning semicoke into compost applicable to crop cultivation. |
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Green shoppers recycle, compost, and more importantly, precycle. |
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Home compost heaps will not be able to cope with this packaging so it will need to be sent to commercial compost heaps provided by many local councils. |
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What I also know is that such perennials as polyanthus, pansies, primula etc are not frost tender and it's these which are thrown onto the compost heaps. |
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Tank silt, cowdung were kept as common materials, which were mixed with various organic waste substrates and are used for the preparation of compost. |
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