Things-to-do Early Winter in Your Garden

A list of What-to-do Now's. It's time to get your compost organised.

It's time to get your compost oraganised.☃️

What to use in your compost

The best smelling compost is made of a good mixture of different types of components. The first group – called ‘greens’ or ‘wets’- is high in nitrogen and includes manure and vegetable scraps.green grass clippings, and weeds. (without there seeds)

The other group – the ‘browns’ or ‘dries’ – is high in carbon. Included in this group are shredded newspaper, fallen leaves, sawdust, dried grass and straw.

As well as the ingredients mentioned you can add such things as vacuum cleaner waste, coffee grounds, tea leaves, wood ash, chopped-up prunings, eggshells and cooking oil. Just remember the golden rule: never too much of any one thing.

What not to use in your compost

Avoid using meat (It will attract unwanted verman), weeds with seeds, diseased plants, and plants that have been treated with herbicide or a pesticide.

Other composting tips

Oxygen, while it’s not strictly necessary, does make composting process a lot effecient. Regular forking, turning or tumbling will usually add sufficient oxygen to improve your results.

​​A small amount of moisture aids the breakdown process. Make sure you keep this up. The idea is to have enough moisture to encourage the breakdown microbes, but not so much that oxygen is excluded.

Move your compost to the sunny area's in Winter and the shaded area's in summer.

 

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• -Keep trees healthy, remove dead or broken branches as soon as you see them and shape-prune live wood in winter when deciduous trees are dormant.