Compost High PH/No dig slugs

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  1. lockycturn

    lockycturn Junior Member

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    I purchased 5 square metres of mushroom compost. It has a ph level of around 7.5/8 taken with a simple ph test kit. Can I get any suggestions as to what to mix with it to get a lower ph. Pine needles and peat are the two I can come up with. Also I am in Hexham near Mortlake/Warrnambool Victoria and have mulched a lot of my beds with hay and am having terrible slug problems. I am getting some ducks but they will not be able to access all of my veg garden because of no fencing. I am thinking of mulching my brassicas with compost only. Please don't s tell me you can't mulch with compost only because there is a very successful Englishman Charles Dowding who only uses compost as mulch. https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/no-dig-growing/no-dig-growing-preparation/. The slug problem is really only on my brassicas so I am thinking to just clear the mulch around the brassicas and use only compost with some wood ashes sprinkled over and leave the rest of the garden as is.
     
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    Have you checked the Ph of your soil?
    If you are mulching and not digging it in, it probably wont be too much of a problem as is.
    If your soil is really aciditic, it might be better to dig it in.

    One Biodynamic book that I used to have but stupidly lent to somebody, recommended mulching with compost every year at the rate of an inch deep.(from memory).
    I've never had enough to do that myself.
     
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    hi lockycturn
    the using of plastic look interesting but i worry about sunlight because i live in hot climate(tropical zone) that temperature can reach up to 38 degree C. so tip burn might be effect my veg at noon any way i will try to do this method.
    THANK YOU
     

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