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Making the perfect compost – layer by layer

There are a few things to consider
when starting a compost heap. The
bottom layer should be composed
of cut-up branches and leaves,
allowing air and crucial animal
helpers to enter. This is followed by a
layer of garden soil, which provides
the compost with microorganisms.
Only then is it time to add the kitchen
waste: eggshells, fruit peels, tea
leaves and coffee grounds, as well
as small amounts of paper – these
make delicious snacks for the animal
compost workers. Round off their
meal with lightly dried grass clippings
and mulched leaves. Garden
centres sell compost accelerators
(also called compost starters or
activators) and rock dust to give the GARDENA Ergoline Fork
compost a loose consistency. These tools, the D-handle on the tools when cutting up branches and when
aid in decomposition and prevent allows soil to be worked easily and turning the soil, as well as helping
waterlogging and bad smells, in effectively. The perfect tool for to absorb the impact when using
addition to promoting a fine, crumbly turning the compost is the Ergoline garden tools. To ensure a secure grip
texture. Fork. on the tools, the palms of the gloves
are coated with silicone. GARDENA
A few weeks after the compost The compost will be ready for use garden gloves are also certified
heap has been constructed, when as a fertiliser after an estimated to OEKO-TEX standards. The new
it has reduced by about a third, it time period of 8 months. Specially range of gloves has an added
can be sifted or turned. Both these designed tool gloves offer a reliable feature of Mobile Touch function
tasks serve to aerate and mix helping hand when composting. The on the thumb and index finger – so
the compost. With the ergonomic padded palms provide extra grip there’s no need to remove your
GARDENA Ergoline range of large during the construction of the heap, gloves to handle your mobile phone.

Lawn care

Preparing the lawn in spring will ensure that the Raking is the first thing you need to do when getting
greenery lasts well into summer and will foster a healthy your lawn ready for new growth.
lawn.
If your grass has a layer of dead turfgrass tissue lying
between the green vegetation of the grass above and
the root system and soil below, that could be bad for
the health of your lawn, in which case deep raking is
required.

If your lawn gets heavy traffic, such as lots of running
and playing in the same spot, this can cause soil
compaction. In this case, the soil needs aeration. A lawn
aerator creates openings in lawn turf that allow water
and air to penetrate the soil and reach the grass roots.

Lawns can be fertilised organically by topdressing
with compost or using a mulching mower to chop lawn
clippings into a nourishing source of nitrogen. But, for
those who prefer the fast-acting effects of a chemical
fertiliser, GARDENA has a range of hand pressure
pumps for application of liquid fertilisers; or fertiliser
Variety of fertiliser applicators from GARDENA spreaders for granular application for all garden sizes.

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