Soil & Compost focuses on improving soil health, making compost, and understanding what plants need to grow well. These guides explain soil types, nutrients and composting methods suitable for UK gardens.
Composting at home comes down to one balance: mix roughly equal green material (grass, peelings, soft growth) and brown material (cardboard, dry leaves, woody bits), keep it about as damp as a wrung-out sponge, and turn it occasionally. Get that right and a UK heap makes usable compost in six to twelve months. Here is … Read more
If you are asking what type of soil do I have, the answer takes two minutes and no kit: squeeze a damp handful. If it rolls into a shiny sausage it is clay, if it feels gritty and falls apart it is sand, and if it holds together loosely then crumbles it is the loam … Read more
The short answer to how to improve garden soil is organic matter, added little and often: compost, well-rotted manure or leaf mould spread over the surface once or twice a year and left for the worms to work in. Everything else in this guide builds on that one habit, and it works on my heavy … Read more