{"id":830,"date":"2012-11-05T00:37:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T07:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2012-11-05T01:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T08:46:00","slug":"uses-of-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/uses-of-compost\/","title":{"rendered":"Uses of Garden Compost"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"compost<\/a><\/p>\n

How do you Use Organic Compost<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Good compost mixed in with soil improves the condition, texture and water retention .<\/li>\n
  2. Put compost in a planting hole for new trees and shrubs it helps to give them a good start.<\/li>\n
  3. Compost around plants and trees acts as a mulch to conserve moisture and protect from frost.<\/li>\n
  4. Feeding nutrients back into the soil particularly for heavy feeders like Dahlias, Onions or Runner Beans is one of the main uses of garden compost.<\/li>\n
  5. Suppressing weeds can be achieved by mulching with compost.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Preparation with Compost<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Replace the soil in the greenhouse where tomatoes have been grown.<\/li>\n
    2. I have just made a new bed for next years Sweet peas from lots of home made compost.<\/li>\n
    3. Mix garden compost with leaf mould and grit for a container of cuttings mix.<\/li>\n
    4. Make your own seed compost mix with loam, compost, leaf mould and vermiculite<\/li>\n
    5. Compost recycles waste, reduces landfill and carbon dioxide emissions whilst saving you money.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Homemade compost has lots of uses for the keen gardener and you may find you can’t create enough. That is no excuse for not composting as much as you can then putting what you creatae to good use!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}