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. So, let’s think about Tumbler composter
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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. One thing that will
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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 compost in the winter months but the
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Can You Compost Tea Bags? Nearly everyone who drinks tea, uses tea bags. What do we do with the soggy leftovers? Most people put them in the bin to go to landfill but there is an alternative. Composting tea bags is an option. Yes, you can make compost from tea bags which is good news
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If you like the idea of growing your own vegetables, you don’t have to stick with convention. Some gardeners are having considerable success growing vegetables in bags or bins. It’s very easy to grow potatoes in a bin. This is one of the easiest things that you can do in the garden. Especially if you
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If you’ve never made compost before, you may not realise that the black, crumbly material that you will, hopefully, be making is a natural plant food. You may be okay with feeding it to flowering plants and scattering it on the lawn but you may not be too sure about feeding composted waste, that came
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