Go to Home Page When making compost from kitchen waste we will, very often, see worms turn up in the compost bin. We will see worms wherever the conditions are right for them but you may wonder, do worms help compost? Worms are a big help when making compost. Having worms in your compost helps
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Go to Home Page Leaves will decompose faster when nitrate-rich material is added to them. Kitchen waste is usually high in nitrates which provide a good balance for the carbon ‘brown’ factor that makes up leaves. The fastest way to decompose leaves is to gradually add them to kitchen waste when you put it in
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Go to Home Page Here’s a question that’s been doing the rounds. Making compost is generally associated with kitchen or garden waste being gathered together and left to convert into compost. There are additives which I know I can add that will speed up or improve the process, but can I put urine in my
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Go to Home Page When you’ve finished mowing the lawn and you’ve emptied the clippings from the grass box for the last time of the session, you’re likely to be looking at a substantial heap of fresh grass clippings. Some people send this off to the dump just to get rid of it but those
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Go to Home Page For anyone who has never made compost before, the idea of storing up kitchen or garden waste, may at first, appear to be complicated. One of the first questions that you’re sure to ask will be what can you put in your compost bin? Put in a balanced mixture of ‘greens’
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Go to Home Page Every spring the grass starts to grow and for the following summer months we have to cut and keep cutting as it relentlessly tries to get ahead of us and become overgrown. Cutting grass is a chore. The usual routine involves gathering the grass clippings and dumping them in a heap
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Go to Home Page A question that comes up from time to time is: can I put moldy bread in compost? Yes, you can put moldy bread in compost. The first thing that happens to any organic material when it’s added to a compost bin is that it will turn moldy. You won’t necessarily notice
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Go to Home Page This is a question that’s going to come up for anyone thinking of starting to make compost. Here, we will look at some of the pros and cons of a tumbler composter versus a static bin. We will also consider the advantages of having both and working them together. So, let’s
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Go to Home Page If you have heavy clay soil you may find the going is tough when you try to dig it over and try to grow anything in it. You may may feel that the best thing you can do is to just grow grass on it and forget about growing anything else.
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Go to Home Page Examples of brown material in compost would be shredded paper, cardboard, leaves or sawdust. Brown material has an abundance of available carbon which is required when making compost. In the general ecology there is a natural carbon cycle. A significant part of this cycle is played out during the making of
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