Did you know that rainwater can act as a fertiliser for your plants and produce! 🧐

Rainwater that comes from the rooftop into the gutter to be stored in a water tank can have traces of organic material.

This organic material is derived as a result of contact exposure to leaves, bird droppings and pollen. 🐦

Once stored inside a water tank, these small additional organic elements help to keep the water alive, creating a natural fertiliser-type effect when the water is used for plants in the garden. 🌱 🔜 🌷

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More and more gardeners throughout the UK are choosing to put together raised beds in their gardens and allotments and here's why...

#1 Get to work at comfortable height...🙌

#2 Easily avoid contaminated soil 🦠

#3 Better drainage = better growth 💧 ➡️ 🌷

#4 Way less pesky weeds and crab grass 👍

#5 Keep out unwelcome critters 🐌

#6 They look AMAZING 😍

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Composting tip 🌟 You should avoid putting these items in your compost bin!

You should never add bindweed to your compost bin. These nasty degenerates are aggressively self-seeding and the seeds can be viable for up to 20-30 years! This means that bindweed seeds can be waiting in your compost ready to ambush your garden. 🌱

You should also never add diseased plants to your compost pile. As the disease can spread to your compost pile and if you use that compost on your garden you will then in turn spread the disease to your lovely garden. 🦠

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Just like us, a compost bin needs a balanced diet. 🍴

The key to having compost packed full of nutrients is to make sure your pile has a good balance of nitrogen-rich and carbon-rich materials.

Green materials are nitrogen-rich and these materials provide protein to the microorganisms that break down the organic matter in your compost bin. These materials are; vegetable peelings, grass trimmings and leafy clippings. 🍃

Carbon-rich materials help to provide energy to the microorganisms that break down the organic matter in the pile. These are considered to be brown materials such as; dry leaves, woody plant trimmings, straw and even paper. 🍁

As a rule of thumb, you should aim to fill your compost bin with 60% green materials and 40% brown materials.

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