Clover Multi-Purpose Compost 60 litres - Healthy Growth From Nutrient Enriched Formula

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Specific-use composts tend to be more expensive than multipurpose composts, but in some cases it's worth paying a little more. On a side note, here’s a good read about polycultures being more productive than monocultures from a recent study at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science: In terms of volume, the 60-litre bag should be ample for anyone with a medium-sized garden. One bag was more than enough for my raised beds and pots. It stretches further than you think! Which plants will benefit from Clover compost?

Depending on moisture availability, can produce about 1 to 3 tons of dry matter per acre, containing 80 to 200 lbs of nitrogen per acre. There’s nothing new about it. People have been using clover as a cover crop for a long time. Masanobu Fukuoka wrote extensively about using white clover specifically as a living mulch, so he gets full credit for what I’m doing. Here’s a good article by permaculturalist Larry Korn (the man who translated Fukuoka’s book, The One-Straw Revolution, into English) about Fukuoka’s farming method. Where Did I Get The Clover Seed?Then, in the late 1940s, along came 2,4-dicholorophenoxyacetic acid , a chemical weed killer that was hailed as a breakthrough and became a component of herbicides ranging from the Vietnam War era’s infamous Agent Orange to current popular home-use brands such as Roundup and Halts . Old compost is often on sale - we send secret shoppers to buy our composts, who tell us if they find old compost on sale. It's a very common problem. We also know from our testing that old compost doesn't perform as well as fresh compost. To avoid this, buy bags that look new and aren't faded or heavy, which suggests they have been sitting around in bright sunshine for too long, or have been rained on regularly. Dry, clean bags that aren't torn or faded - in the garden centre choose bags that look new as the contents contain fresh compost. Bags that are faded or are heavy have been hanging around, getting too hot in the sun or soaking up rain, which will damage the compost in the bag. If possible, buy from a garden centre that keeps its compost in a covered area.

Clover multi-purpose has been specially blended to suit delicate flower and seed vegetable seeds, however it may be necessary to sieve and reduce to a finer grade particle size if filling smaller seed cells. Many people no longer want to buy peat compost as it's believed to damage the environment and add considerably to global warming. However, peat composts are still the most widely available composts in garden centres and are preferred by many gardeners. Compost and soil improvers should form part of your ongoing garden maintenance programme. They can be used to boost the appearance and structure of everything from soil and lawns to plants and raised beds.

Once a prized ground cover and grazing material for animals (clover contains more protein than other grasses), clover was no match for the marketing forces of lawn chemical companies who rebranded it as a noxious weed in the years after World War II. But the only way to know if a compost is good or bad is to grow plants in it and compare them - something we've been doing for more than 30 years. So essentially, what I’m doing is allowing the clover to grow on the edges of my raised beds initially. If it travels its way into the beds, that’s OK with me. Here’s why: 1. Less Weeding

They often contain a different mix of ingredients to those found in multipurpose composts. These include small amounts of sand, grit or vermiculite in seed and potting composts, bark in orchid compost and mostly gravel and sand in cacti composts. Fill a pot or seed tray to 1/2 inch below top rim with Clover multi-purpose and use a pencil or dibber to make holes for the cuttings.It should be able to withstand the occasional traffic involved in reaching into the garden beds 4. Nitrogen Fixer Find out more about why you should buy peat-free compost. Is it true that I can catch Legionnaires' disease from compost? In fact, our testing shows really variable results for both cheap and expensive compost. The only way to really know what you're getting is to look at our results. Things to look for when buying compost Tub and basket composts are formulated to give the right conditions for pots of summer bedding to grow well.