#5 Make Your Own Composts

Manifesto for Growing Cut Flowers

Manifesto

#5 Make your own composts

Next, as promised in my manifesto¹, here is making your own composts.²

I have made composts for clients in their gardens for over 25 years. There is one thing in common with everyone’s site, garden or field.

They don’t make enough room for it.

If you think about it, making your own compost is a serious money saver whilst promoting the best soil health. It’s worth the space on your plot isn’t? But most of us pile up garden waste in a bin or pile and forget about it.

Some years I spent hundreds of pounds on buying in bags of composts and truck loads of mulch.

Easily.

But the best thing, is how much better my own homemade compost is for growing in.

It isn’t hard, it doesn’t take much effort. It’s free. But it does take space.

It took me a long time, and one very special friend who suggested that I use a much bigger space to compost, and get rid of all the pallets.

This is how I used to compost -

When I began Anna’s Flower Farm in 2015, these were the first compost heaps I made. You can see all the layers in the new heap.