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Mulching with spent compost

  • 15-05-2010 8:12pm
    #1
    Yorky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,485 ✭✭✭


    Could anyone advise whether the following was a correct course of action?

    I've just mulched a broad bean and potato raised beds with old peat-free compost to:

    Retain moisture
    Add nutrients to the soil
    Put the old compost to some use

    I made sure it wasn't piled up around the stems of the broad beans, in order to prevent rot. The potatoes had soil/manure mounded up around them and I just covered the mounds and surrounding soil.

    Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    lalorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭lalorm


    In general, mulching is a good idea to retain moisture. However, be carefull not to mulch too high since some plants don't like to be burried too deep. Broad beans can be mulshed once they are established and growing well.


  • #3
    azzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭azzie


    Don't do what we did and buy spent mushroom compost - you could TASTE the smell from hundreds of yards away!


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