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hello,
as we’ve only been going for 6 months we haven’t got any homemade compost yet, and we don’t want to spend too much on bought potting compost.
we have shelled out on some moorland gold (it’s local to us) – i would like to mix it with molehills(!) to make it go further.. how much molehill can i get away with adding, without diluting the goodness too much?
Hmmm, not TOO much! partly as it will make the compost heavier and less free draining.
Back in the eighties of the last century (1980s that is!) I used mushroom compost for potting, with a little woodash and seaweed meal added. It grew good plants, the only snag for replicating that now is that most mushroom compost I see, and some I have bought, is less rotted with bits of straw. Would be good if dark and well decomposed, it is light and has no weed seeds.
Then last year I had success with cow manure as potting compost, well rotted, eighteen months old or so. Also my own compost when a year old and put through a coarse sieve. Should have added sharp sand to imporve its drainage but it was ok!
A few ideas to reduce your expenditure.
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