Go to Home Page Most of us know that making compost in warm weather is easy. The bugs that turn waste into compost are much more effective in warm temperature. But what about hot composting in winter, is it possible to convert green waste into compost in cold weather? You can make hot compost in
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Go to Home Page Can You Compost Tea Bags? You can make compost from tea bags. Nearly everyone who drinks tea, uses tea bags. Making compost of the soggy leftover tea bags is an ideal solution. Most people put them in the bin to go to landfill but there is an alternative. The tea in
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Go to Home Page To grow potatoes in a bin you need to prepare them in the same way as you would grow them in a garden. The potatoes need to be chitted then plant them with the sprouts looking upwards. Allow about 10 litres of soil in the bin for each potato to grow.
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Go to Home Page   You can use compost for growing vegetables but you need to use it as part of a mixture. There will be a better root structure when you grow vegetables in a soil-compost mix. Growing vegetables in just compost will lead to spindly, odd-shaped plants. Compost tends to be rich in
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Go to Home Page The best material that you can put in a compost bin to start the process off is garden soil. This will contain all the microbes that compost needs to start and continue the rotting process. Starting from the soil-in-the-compost-bin point, you can continue to put in any food-waste. This will, then,
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To Home Page   When we’re disposing of waste food most people know that vegetable waste will safely rot down into compost in the right conditions. There is, however, some doubt when disposing of cooked meat which often turns up as leftovers on the plate. So, can you put cooked meat in compost? Yes you
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To Home Page Also: What do rats not like?       What are rats afraid of? What are rats attracted to?       What are rats a sign of? What are rats associated with?       What are rats allergic to? What are brown rats?   Most people know that there are rats around, somewhere.
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To Home Page You can’t deter rats from coming into your garden but there are things that you can do that will deter them from staying. The simplest way to avoid a rat problem is to ensure that there is no food source available for them and remove cluttered material that can provide a harbour
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To Home Page What is composting? Composting is the converting of organic material that was once living into a black crumbly material which is of immense use as a natural fertilizer for growing plants. These could be flower plants or vegetables and the waste from these can then be turned into compost at a later
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To Home Page Also: Do you have to use worms in compost? Earthworms in compost good or bad? Can you put worms in a compost tumbler? Can you put worms in a compost bin? Are maggots in compost good or bad? Can worms live in hot compost? How many worms do I need for my
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