compost

Green alkanet Pentaglottis sempervirens with calyx detail Completed for FSC “Discover Wildflowers” fold out identification guide

Rose chafer beetle, cut to white.  Common iridescent garden visitor

Ideal garden full of things you can do to encourage nature and promote soil health in your garden For more please check out my blog, and the associated blog on how NOT to have an ideal garden.

Illustration of a compost bin in use with plants growing out the side and kitchen waste on top

Drosophila fruit flies male and female along side each other showing sexual dimorphism, cut to white

How to build a raised bed from planks showing attachments of horizontal planks to the vertical uprights, and how to secure the bed in the ground

Safely pricking out seedlings from a seed tray

White clover Trifolium repens showing rooting nodes and pale chevrons on the leaves

Dead leaves rotting and decomposing into compost from newly fallen to decomposed and down to small leaf patricles like compost

Common comfrey Symphytum officinale plant with details of pink and blue flowers

Study of leaf litter showing dead decaying leaves

Corner of a raised bed showing how to attach the plants to one another when building the bed

Three illustrations showing compost as it degrades into organic matter, from recognizable leaf litter through to earth like mulch

Set up with two compost bins in rotation

Taking soft wood cuttings and planting them on once they’ve become established in a covered flower pot

How to build a raised bed from planks showing attachments of horizontal planks to the vertical uprights, and how to secure the bed in the ground

Removing a shrub from a pot which is too small for it and planting it out in a larger container safely

Steps involved in establishing and planting up a hanging basket including how to allow plants to grow out sideways and how to re plant flowers in the new basket

Safely pricking out seedlings from a seed tray

How to take basal cuttings from a perennial and trim the base before covering it with a bag in a pot until it’s established when the cuttings can be separated and re plantied or plated out

How to take a hardwood cutting from a parent plant, four steps showing making the cutting, dipping it in hormone rooting powder, and establishing it in a new pot to grow

Step by step stages showing how to remove a plant safely and plant it into a larger pot where it can flourish, seven steps

Eight steps showing how to build a compost bin from planks

Cut through of a wormery or worm compost bin showing fresh organic matter at the top and lvwer down a rich looking compost full of healthy worm, all in one handy bucket with a tap for drianing off the super nutrient rich compost juice