Learn about the different organic materials you can compost – which vary from fallen leaves to human poo! If you’re new to composting, we recommend starting with What You Can Compost: From Everyday Items To The Bizarre…
Next time you walk in a forest, try bending down and taking a handful of the soil. You’ll find it dark with a delightful smell somewhere between rich earth and old leaves. These leaves are full of nutrients – the very nutrients that can be used to grow huge trees. And in the autumn, there […]
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My first compost heaps were pretty awful. I used to put everything in a corner of the garden, and then wondered months later why I had a slimy mess. Later on I experimented with regular turning of my compost pile, and decided it was too much work to turn a compost heap every few days.
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Manure may smell, but as a source of fertility for your soil, it’s hard to beat. It’s also one of the best compost materials you can use. Despite that, there are problems with manure that you need to be aware of. You’ll also find that different animal manures have different properties, and need to be
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Hair. Dead chickens. Fish. I’ve composted them all. In fact, if your pile or bin maintains a temperature of at least 130-160°F (55-70°C), you can compost almost anything that’s recently been alive. Even if it’s not hot, you might be surprised at the number of things you can turn into compost. From garden waste to
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A few years ago, a man knocked on my house door when I was at work. My wife answered. ‘I’ve got a trailer full of shit here for you.” (It was a big trailer.) She wasn’t very happy. When she asked me why I hadn’t asked her first, I asked her if she would have
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We drink a lot of tea. The British drink 36 billion cups of tea a year, while in 2018 the US consumed 84 billion cups. Almost all of that is in the form of tea bags rather than loose tea. So it makes sense to do something useful with leftover tea – something like composting.
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