Tool Category Soil & Feeding

The question with a compost bin is never how much it holds, it is how long it takes to fill and whether there is somewhere to turn it into. A cubic metre sounds generous until you work out that a…

A 2.4 by 1.2 metre bed filled to forty-five centimetres holds just under one and a half cubic metres of soil, which is around two tonnes, and three of them is nearly four cubic metres and five and a half…

Mulch is the rare garden material where the depth is the whole point: too thin and it does nothing, too thick and it keeps the water out and the weeds in regardless. The usual recommendation is fifty to a hundred…