Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: Plot 1 Problems on February 24, 2018, 01:52
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I'm blessed with neighbours who donate their garden waste to fuel my 3 big pallette compost bins.
I also have a problem with Horsetail, and I need to get hold of some Amcide to speed up the composting process. Amazon currently has this product at £12 a kg, does anyone else know where I can pick this up a bit cheaper? Once upon a time it was a quarter of the price....
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It is expensive stuff! but have you tried using urine as a compost activator, it free :lol: and does work well. It won't help with your Horsetail problem, though ::)
Of course nothing is going to help very much until it turns a bit warmer *sigh*
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Chicken pellets or chicken manure works well :)
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It is expensive stuff! but have you tried using urine as a compost activator, it free :lol: and does work well.
Good advice, exactly what I do. Works wonders and keeps the foxes off your compost too.
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Yep I always keep a handy bottle of golden compost activator handy ;)
It's of no use with the Horsetail though. *shakes fist*
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I'm blessed with neighbours who donate their garden waste to fuel my 3 big pallette compost bins.
I also have a problem with Horsetail, and I need to get hold of some Amcide to speed up the composting process. Amazon currently has this product at £12 a kg, does anyone else know where I can pick this up a bit cheaper? Once upon a time it was a quarter of the price....
My neighbor was in the very same situation as yourself, he moved his compost heap around the areas where he had the mares tail and it worked a dream. Amazon was the only place he could find Amcide for sale.
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A little cheaper without a brand name, here
https://mistralni.co.uk/products/ammonium-sulphamate
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Make sure the compost heap/bin is in full sun, not behind the shed :D. I am a lover of smaller heaps over big ones. Small is beautiful I think bigger compost heaps don’t get hot enough.
Stir up Sunday! Give the contents a good stir and add some fresh material. Some kitchen compost perhaps
When it does begin to warm up outside keep an eye on the contents and water it if it gets dry
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A little cheaper without a brand name, here
https://mistralni.co.uk/products/ammonium-sulphamate
Perfect, thanks!
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Can you explain the link to marestail please, does amcide kill it?
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It's very effective at killing even the most stubborn of weeds, but sadly it fell foul of the cost of EU licensing a few years back.
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See what John says about it here
Control Horse or Mare's Tail - Equisetum Arvense (http://www.allotment-garden.org/gardening-information/weed-control/control-horse-mares-tail-equisetum-arvense/)
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Thank you, I’ll stick with pulling it up every time I see it or hoeing it off at 7cms.
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Thank you, I’ll stick with pulling it up every time I see it or hoeing it off at 7cms.
That's normally my approach, but I've got a really stubborn patch that I haven't been able to control and I wanted to erradicate it once and for all!
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Hoeing/pulling 'werks for me' (old Munty-ism: see some of the older posts).