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!
Lying between the back of my house and my chicken run is a large expanse of lawn. My wife loves it; I always think it’s fairly useless since it doesn’t grow anything I can eat. But in one way, it’s far from useless – it’s a fantastic source of compost material. In fact, when I
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Here’s five pieces of composting advice which make composting slower, smellier, harder – and give worse results. Plus the unexpected good news about this bad advice.
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You’ve probably been told to keep cooking oil out of compost – probably because of the fear that it will clog up the compost, stop oxygen from reaching compost material and/or attract pests. But a while back I came across a study that suggested it could be beneficial in multiple ways. Japanese researchers found that
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Like most other gardening/composting sites, 99% of the articles I write about assume you have a garden to make compost in. But the reality is billions of people live in a gardenless house or flat. The desire to compost often exists, but the space to do so using traditional methods doesn’t. It’s true that you
Cardboard Box Composting: No Garden, No Bin, No Problem Read More »
Every morning, Gill Thomas collects dog poop bags from the bins outside her local park and takes them home. It didn’t begin this way. In spring 2025, a resident flagged what Thomas describes as a “grot spot” – hundreds of littered dog waste bags dumped along a rural lane beside a Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust nature
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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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My first compost pile wasn’t great. A corner of my garden behind my garage had three walls around it, and I simply dumped my garden waste there. When I dug down after two years I got compost — but you certainly shouldn’t have to wait that long. After reading dozens of books on composting, I
Composting for Beginners: 6 Simple Steps to Perfect Compost Read More »
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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