Ready to get the most out of your garden and turn waste into black gold? It’s time to learn about composting! Here you’ll find clear, step-by-step instructions, informative articles and pro tips on the composting process that will help you become a master composter in no time.
If you’re totally new to composting, start off with our home composting guide, while experienced composters might want to find out our 17 tips for speeding compost up!
What a start it’s been to April! A blazing sun saw our house party spill out into the garden—where, with Easter coming up, the kids lined up to have a bash at the piñata swinging from the rose arch. With colorful paper strings scattered across the grass, I couldn’t help but think about all the […]
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I don’t know about you, but I find most “can’t compost” lists incredibly annoying. They often include items like grass (I compost vast amounts of grass every year), weeds (an excellent source of compost material) and human waste (haven’t they read Humanure, Shit in a Nutshell?) In fact, I often find it quite hard to
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Winter sometimes seems endless, but my heart always begins to soar as the days grow longer and the first daffodils, tulips, and crocuses emerge from their long hibernation. It’s time to pack away the books, switch off the TV and turn our attention to the joys of gardening and composting once again. After all, it’s
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After reading dozens of books on composting, I often come to the same conclusion – the books usually make composting sound too complicated, and lack a quick start guide. After all, while you can get technical with composting, at the end of the day it’s a natural process. If you pile up material you will
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It’s the 27th of December, and after 10 days away I decided to top up my worm bin with some manure and straw. When I lifted the lid off to add the material, I immediately saw a bunch of worms at the top (some munching on some well rotted kitchen waste). That’s despite the fact
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If you’ve read a few of our articles (covering everything from composting fish to dead chickens), you won’t be surprised to learn that bread can also be composted. In fact, bread is easier to compost than many other materials we’ve covered. However, like all food scraps, it does come with some unique challenges. Why compost
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Fish guts and remains can present a challenge for the amateur composter. It’s something I’ve become well aware of, as when I am not gardening or composting I am often fishing. It’s a great way to provide protein to go with the veg from the garden – and it’s far less damaging to the environment
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Every year, a staggering 60% of household waste comes from food scraps—reaching over 600 million tonnes globally. It doesn’t need to be this way. Instead of sending this waste to landfill, where it generates methane emissions, you can turn it into valuable, nutrient-rich compost right in your kitchen. From worm composting to Bokashi bins, this
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India, 2023. A small bin stands in a lab, filled with organic waste. But this is no ordinary compost bin. The compost is moving and shifting. Along the top crawl insects. Cockroaches. Welcome to the world of blatticomposting – a form of composting that could help deal with the mountain of organic waste countries like
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Got a slow compost heap? Then you might well be on the lookout for a compost accelerator or activater. I get it – as a compost nerd, I’m always keen to speed up my own compost. As a result, I’ve spent years researching different ways to activate the compost and trying out (mostly free!) activators.
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