#compost mixes

[tenpolegardener]

May

The robins are out hopeful that I will provide them with a treat.

Potting on the plants that I have purchased.

I filling the airpot with a coir/ soil mix. It’s 2/3 coir to 1/3 soil. I use the plant pot to create the perfect hole.

A lemon verbena; leaves are use in an infusion or add leaves to cakes and desserts.

I’m putting a lemon verbena in an airpot.

I’m potting up my mint; Jessica sweet pear. Good for a tea.

It’s the end of the day; done well busy with everything. Still plenty to do.

[tenpolegardener]

May

I’m working on my project. I want to create lavender, rosemary and creeping thyme.

I use a pot to help create the perfect planting hole.

Im sifting soil first to get a finer particles then using this to bring up the level to my string line.

I put my plant in and fill the gaps with a coir/soil mix.

My first lavender and rosemary in; more to do. Spacing are around 18 inches or 450mm between the plants

samphire rock; Crithmum maritimum. Wonderfully succulent, small, bushy, hardy perennial, with fleshy, grey-green foliage. Tender new shoots have a salty flavour and are rich in vitamin C, essential oils, trace elements and minerals, Though seldom found far from the sea and usually growing on steep cliffs or sandy beaches, it is very adaptable to a variety of normal garden soils, as long as it is allowed to dry out and there is no standing water.

I’m potting up to grow on. I have my pots. I’m half filling with a coir/soil mix

I put the pot of samphire rock in then fill the remaining with seramis clay granules. The clay granules will be a good growing medium.

[tenpolegardener]

Busy day but I need to get some things planted; tomatoes, sweet basil, garlic chives, marigolds, nasturtiums. I’m half filling the containers with clay soil. I mix in fish blood and bone then I top it up with my mix of coir and Westland multipurpose compost with John innes. 2 parts coir to 1 part compost.

[tenpolegardener]

Planting my sweet peppers and a couple of marigolds. I am using my coir compost mix incorporated with the clay soil from the garden.

[tenpolegardener]

Preparing my airpots. I plan to use them for my mulberry, cherry bush and my edible roses.

I am using a compost mix to fill the pots; 1 part brought peat free compost, 2 parts of coir and 1 part of soil.

[tenpolegardener]

Busy getting this beds together; cutting timber poles for the top and filling with a soil compost mix. Using 80 litres of brought peat free compost, 40 litres of soil and 60 litres of coir. I can get about 8 plants to each gro-beds.

[sylvanthorn]

This helped me when I couldn’t get any ericaceous compost for some blueberries. I mix 50% coffee grounds with coir and about 10% perlite.

I was surprised with some of examples.

[tenpolegardener]

This was the compost that I had my new potatoes growing in. I was surprised to see that it was dry as I only watered it a few days ago. In some ways I think I am better off making my own compost. I won’t be buying this brand again.