I was going to plant a tomato plant last year so bought a 50l bag of compost which sat idle in the garden for a couple of weeks last summer. I decided not plant in the end so I put the bag in the shed all winter. This year I opened the bag up and it was teaming with hundreds of fully grown earth worms 🪱 and they’ve really turned the compost over, no clumps of organic matter just sticky moist compost. So if you want to play the long game for next summer, get a bag now, put a small hole in it and leave in the garden for a few weeks and leave in the shed and hopefully next year you too will have nutrient rich compost!
by ryaninlondon
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I genuinely try to do this anyway. The peat-free stuff seems to be inconsistently “broken down”. So it’s good forward planning to buy a few bags to “mature” and then replace them as you use them.
Gardener opens plastic bag to find nature has made her way in already…
Oooh, I could stick a few holey bags in my chicken run… 😁