Kitchen Garden Forum

Making our own compost instead of buying peat based products also saves on road miles and emissions, it's much cheaper too. Another benefit of making ones own compost and fertilisers and growing stuff from seed is that pests and chemicals are not imported into the garden ... remember the stuff that turned up in manure and stunted vegetable growth ?
Elle, wondering if this link helps, this explanation quite simple, some others take a lot of ploughing through!

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/soil/pdf/liski.pdf

Dear NB,

I am afraid not - not enough detail here . (don't get me wrong, I probably need something in the middle!) . It reminds me of one of our governor training session powerpoint presentations which are fine as bullet points when you have the speaker there, going through the discussion, but rather uninformative when you have just the bullet points without the discussion. But thank you anyway for posting it I will continue trying to read about it and follow the debates.