Garden Reference Pack
Compost, watering and soil mixes — the decisions the calculators can't make
Compost, sun, watering and soil mixes, with the decisions the calculators leave out. Twelve brown and twelve green materials with the C:N ratios the calculator does not carry, worked blends and the six reasons heaps fail. Then the question every seed packet asks and nothing answers: how much sun the bed actually gets — at 51.5°N a bed two metres from a two-metre fence has no direct midday sun for seven months of the year. Then watering volumes by pot and season, and soil recipes by plant with their pH windows. 10 pages, printable, with a fill-in bed and heap record.
Look inside
Two full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- 24 compost materials with C:N ratios - the calculator carries ten
- What catches people out with each material, which is rarely the ratio
- Worked blends, computed the same way as the site's own calculator
- Six heap failures diagnosed by symptom - only one is about carbon
- Turning schedule and realistic finish times by heap size
- How much sun a bed really gets — the midday shadow of your fence, by latitude and month
- The months a bed loses entirely, by how far it sits from the fence
- Why a bed that grew well all summer stops in September, and why compost will not fix it
- Weekly water split into soakings by soil type
- Pot-by-pot volumes and intervals across the four seasons
- Ten soil recipes by plant category, with pH windows
- Fill-in bed and heap record
- ✓ 10 printable pages
- ✓ 12 reference tables and checklists
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed — just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The pack complements the free calculators — they do the arithmetic, it carries the figures they cannot know.