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I'm growing my courgettes and apple cucumbers in bags of cheap compost from Pak'N Save. We have a worm farm, I use my comfry leaves, we get seaweed from the beach and also fowl manure (not from the beach). These are soaked, not the worm waste though, in buckets of water and after a few weeks I use them to water the plants and they seem to get all the goodness they need. I do dilute them but I just judge what I think is right and it works.
Our raised gardens are pretty much what is now termed as no dig gardens as the "soil" is made of cardboard, newspaper, any branches and leaves lying around after pruning so they "sink" and every 4 to 6 months I put my mixture of compost on the top and doing that it seems to allow me to grow the same things a few years in a row as the soils is pretty much new though I do the rotation type gardening too.
I have, just this year, started making compost by using black garden bags instead of the compost bins. It is just so easy, give them a kick with feet every so often to roll them over. I pour a few litres of one of my mixtures in every so often. I also put some of my worm farm worms in which broke the veg down even quicker. But, before putting into gardens I had to carefully go through and get the worms and put them back home as they won't live in soil like earthworms and I couldn't just let them die after all the hard work they had put in. We are getting rid of our compost bins.
I also use Epsom salts whenever a yellow leaf appears. It seems to work wonders.
I've not grown in bags before but I keep buying more veg and running out of room and if it works, who knows, next year I'm sure I could find more space to put more bags ha ha ha.
Our raised gardens are pretty much what is now termed as no dig gardens as the "soil" is made of cardboard, newspaper, any branches and leaves lying around after pruning so they "sink" and every 4 to 6 months I put my mixture of compost on the top and doing that it seems to allow me to grow the same things a few years in a row as the soils is pretty much new though I do the rotation type gardening too.
I have, just this year, started making compost by using black garden bags instead of the compost bins. It is just so easy, give them a kick with feet every so often to roll them over. I pour a few litres of one of my mixtures in every so often. I also put some of my worm farm worms in which broke the veg down even quicker. But, before putting into gardens I had to carefully go through and get the worms and put them back home as they won't live in soil like earthworms and I couldn't just let them die after all the hard work they had put in. We are getting rid of our compost bins.
I also use Epsom salts whenever a yellow leaf appears. It seems to work wonders.
I've not grown in bags before but I keep buying more veg and running out of room and if it works, who knows, next year I'm sure I could find more space to put more bags ha ha ha.
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