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In July 2022, a burnt-out Russian tank sat in Lyudmila Nishenko’s garden in Velyka Dymerka, a village about 30 kilometres northeast of Kyiv. It had been there since the Russian advance on the capital earlier that year. Rather than wait for someone to remove it, she poured soil into the turret and used it as […]
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You can spend a lot of money on compost bins. (I’m speaking from experience here!) And while it’s true that a well made compost bin makes composting easy, you shouldn’t let budget concerns stop you from composting. First, many bins are easy to build. Certainly, the ones here are easy enough that I can build
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I’m always intrigued by the more esoteric edges of composting. Unfortunately, some of my desires to experiment, such as those with cockroach composting and humanure toilets, have been frustrated by what I can only explain as a family intervention. However, I’ve had no objections to my latest project, woodlice composting, and I don’t anticipate any
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Affiliate Disclosure: This review contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support our testing work. Designed in Sweden, and adored in the UK – where it won Which? Best Buy for Compost Bins in 2021 AND Gardener’s World Best
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Affiliate Disclosure: This review contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support our testing work. It’s cheap. It’s cheerful. And it comes in a lot of plastic. The Navaris Hanging Waste Bins won’t win design awards, it’s not particularly
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Affiliate Disclosure: This review contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support our testing work. The simplehuman Compost Caddy is beautiful. Maybe too beautiful. If you live in a country kitchen like mine, you’ll probably find it looks out
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Affiliate Disclosure: This review contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support our testing work. When it first arrived, on the same day as the simplehuman compost bin, I wasn’t expecting much from the mBillion. Perhaps it was the
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Affiliate Disclosure: This review contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support our testing work. After years of running homemade worm bin systems, I’ve finally taken the plunge into pre-fab territory — and the VermiHut Plus 5-Tray Worm Composter
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I’ve long been fascinated by the Subpod compost bin. If you haven’t seen this before, it’s a vermicomposting bin which is often sunk into the ground. Fans of the system rave about it, saying that in addition to making compost, it improves the soil around the bin as worms move in and out of the
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Affiliate Disclosure: This review contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support our testing work. In the past, we’ve reviewed kitchen compost bins with thick lids and charcoal filters which eliminate all odors. They work well — but the
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