When planting my strawberries I have given them a mulch of wet shredded paper from my shredding machine. It matts together nicely keeping light out to prevent weeds and I should have nice clean strawberries to eat. Makes use of your old bank statements too. Or your advertising junk is very colourful when shredded. Will […]
Compost. To date I can’t put my veges in but all the agrapanthus/leaves now noxious weed. I cut off the green leaves and add to my compost. We have tons of it here as well as Ginger which is excellent for the compost heap. Don’t forget to layer with brown vegetation. This will speed up […]
A tip for making compost using nothing more than large black plastic rubbish bags, helps with the slug and snail problem too. I fill the rubbish bags with soft green waste rather than stalks, keeping them in a warm sunny place, and turning them occasionally. The warm bags attract heat seeking slugs and snails. I […]
I always had a problem composting, till at a night class I was told to simply wrap peelings etc in newspaper and put in the compost. The newspaper provides carbon and so balances the green nitrogenous waste.
Use a couple of old car tyres placed on top of each other, then put all your potato peelings inside covered with some compost and dirt then topped up with lawn clippings. Before long, you’ll have a tyre full of fresh potatoes.
When your Chives have done their dash, cut them off at the base of the plant, and watch them grow again.
If you are not careful a compost heap can become a great smelly heap of sloshy muck. You are supposed to turn it over which is hard work, especially for old folks. Here is a tip. Get an old 40 gallon drum. Make a hole in the bottom. Put a piece of scrunched up wire […]
I only use a large rubbish bag about once a month for rubbish to go to the dump. I always put fruit and vege scraps, tea bags, egg shells, and vacuum cleaner contents into a bucket and when it is full I dig it straight into my small vege garden, where it turns into soil […]
Instead of throwing out the root end of the celery, place it in a jar of water. In no time, roots will develop and it can be planted in the garden for lots of free celery. (As it happens, there are quite a few vegetables that can be grown from scraps, like potatoes of course. […]
Cauliflowers. Years ago I cut the cauli out and forgot to pull out the plant. Months later I discovered at least 6 had grown up from the original root, and in diminishing size, each produced a cauli! In due course, more grew from those roots, and 6 months later another crop of caulis. It is […]