Westland Citrus Potting Compost Mix and Enriched with Seramis, 8 L

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These citrus oils also don’t harm the useful microorganisms responsible for the breakdown of your food waste. This is an old myth dating back at least to when I started seriously composting 40 some odd years ago.

Fill in around the edges with more compost ensuring the top feeder roots are covered with 2cm of fresh compost. A wormery is a closed system entirely reliant on the worms to work: if it becomes too acidic the worms will die, and the contents will sit and stagnate. Some of our products will be shipped directly from suppliers and so might have slightly different timescales. If this is the case then it will clearly be indicated in the product information for your awareness. If you keep these plants in your garden, they may benefit from using a special compost with a good amount of citrus in it, so you can be less careful about the amount of citrus you use for their specific compost.While this isn’t a problem for people who eat the fruit, it’s certainly strong enough to kill off any unwanted bacteria in your compost pile, so you shouldn’t have anything to worry about. Holding your plant upright in the middle of the pot, carefully fill backfill with potting mix around the rootball until the top feeder roots are covered with 2 cm fresh potting mix. This can be done by frequent stirring; this distributes the different parts of the compost to where they need to be. You’ll hear people say that you should avoid putting citrus into your worm farm at all costs because worms don’t like the acid levels of compost. its texture sets it apart, by promoting root growth and leading to stronger, healthier plants as a result.

If you do that, you’ll be amazed at how quickly anything that even looks like a citrus disappears from the bin.Of course, this does not mean that you should simply throw in as much citrus as you want into a composting mixture. The wax on the fruit is mild enough not to affect your entire compost pile (because people have to come in contact with it too and may eat it) but strong enough to prevent the mold from growing on the surface of the citrus. We make our range of coir products, garden accessories and 100% peat-free coir compost using the by-products of the coconut industry, which would have otherwise been destroyed. Depending on the tastes of your household, you’ve probably got a range of citrus fruits at any given time.

Sawdust, dead leaves, shredded paper and cardboard, and even dried twigs are all examples of browns. If you forget to do this, you could always transplant the sprouts to somewhere suitable in your garden! It’s important that there is a good balance of both greens and browns for this process to go as smoothly as possible.Place a layer of potting mix in the bottom of the new pot then carefully remove the plant from the existing pot. Cut out all water shoots arising from the bottom or middle portions of the main branches, and shorten those arising near the tips of the branches.

From March to September feed every two weeks with a balanced feed such as Miracle-Gro® Plant Food for busy growth and to prevent fruit drop and leaf yellowing.Specially formulated with the optimum balance of NPK nutrition and added iron to create the ideal nutritional balance for orange, lemon and all citrus plants. In the event you have to use whole fruit while composting, it’s a good idea to break open the fruit and split up the pieces first.