When you’ve finished mowing the lawn and you’ve emptied out the grass box for the last time for this 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 people should ask the question, can
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There are boxes and bags of powders that contain a ‘magic’ ingredient with a claim that it will accelerate the composting process, but do they really? I’ve used one of these accelerators called ‘Garotta’ but I’m a little mystified about what is actually in it and what is a compost accelerator? A compost accelerator is
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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? Anything that is food to you will be food to something
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Many of us take the view that all our waste can be put in a trash can and sent away to become someone else’s responsibility. There are many who would make use of this waste but they have questions about how to go about it. One of the main questions is how long does it
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Your compost bin is an ideal place to get rid of all that messy stuff that turns up from time to time. Anything that’s obviously gone bad, mouldy or just has a whiff can go in the compost and you can then forget about it. You’ll never see it again because nature will take care
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One of the things about making compost is that the words ‘composting’ and ‘speed’ don’t go together. I’ve been looking around to see if anyone has any ideas to add to my own because if there are ways of speeding up the process we need to know about them. So, How do you speed up
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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 then deciding what to
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A question that comes up from time to time is: can I put moldy bread in compost? The answer to this is yes you can. The mold will not adversely affect anything in a compost bin or tumbler. Adding anything that’s moldy to waste that’s destined to become compost will help with the process. The
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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 compost tumbler versus a static bin. We will also consider the advantages of having both and working them together. You have to decide on a
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All soil types will benefit from the addition of compost but introducing compost on clay soil will make more of an improvement than on any other soil type. If you have clay soil then the best thing you can do is to add compost to it. If you have a good supply of compost available
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