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Originally Posted by svenrufus  Cotham Marble's answer is interesting too - do you mean that applying the compost at the wrong time of year means that the nutrients aren't then available during the growing season? Why would this be? |
I think there must have been a problem with my use of tense but I can't quite see what it was - anyway what I meant was: Adding compost to the soil at any point in advance of the growing season will benefit the plant in that growing season - it will not matter whether it is done in Autumn, Winter or early Spring.
Actually, there is the potential for a degree of leaching of nutrients, a problem that is worse with some soils but in the UK I can only think that would apply to a few areas of very sandy soil. In those cases Spring applications would probably be more effective.
CM