http://www.sprig.co.za/2009/02/garden-essentials-the-green-bin/ South African Gardening Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:57:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sprig.co.za/2009/02/garden-essentials-the-green-bin/comment-page-1/#comment-927 shaggy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:48:03 +0000 http://sprig.co.za/?p=125#comment-927 Hey You should be careful with puttings weeds with seeds in your compost, however if you do have weed seeds in your compost, try to get the temperature over 65 deg C to kill the them. The heap should naturally get hot, but mostly only in the centre. Best practice is to put weeds in a separate compost heap... Hey You should be careful with puttings weeds with seeds in your compost, however if you do have weed seeds in your compost, try to get the temperature over 65 deg C to kill the them. The heap should naturally get hot, but mostly only in the centre.
Best practice is to put weeds in a separate compost heap…

]]> http://www.sprig.co.za/2009/02/garden-essentials-the-green-bin/comment-page-1/#comment-530 candice Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:39:20 +0000 http://sprig.co.za/?p=125#comment-530 hi there you should totally get a worm bin! the little critters will produce micronutrient rich compost after a month or two, but better yet, they constantly produce their worm tea, which you can use as a liquid fertiliser when watering plants. the ones from stores are really expensive. i just made my own three-tiered one which looks really good too (bought three storage tubs from Builder's Warehouse at R60 each (R180), drilled some holes... and my worms are living happily ever after. :) hi there
you should totally get a worm bin! the little critters will produce micronutrient rich compost after a month or two, but better yet, they constantly produce their worm tea, which you can use as a liquid fertiliser when watering plants. the ones from stores are really expensive. i just made my own three-tiered one which looks really good too (bought three storage tubs from Builder’s Warehouse at R60 each (R180), drilled some holes… and my worms are living happily ever after.

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