The When and How of Spreading Your DIY Compost
I love that moment when I realise my homemade compost pile is well and truly cooked! And at last I can start spreading it on my hungry garden soil. It’s an exciting moment. But there are great…
Choosing And Using Kitchen Compost Bins – 5 Steps To An Odor Free, Easy Clean System
We all want to do our bit for the planet. All over the world people are trying harder to avoid plastics and recycle their waste. And recycling your organic kitchen waste is a great way to contribute…
Growing Greener Grass With Homemade Compost
We’ve been using compost from our compost pile in our vegetable garden and flower beds for many years. But this year, we decided to give the grass on our homestead a bit of a boost. We tend…
Is My Compost Ready For Use?
Whether you’re tending frequently to a fast-working hot compost heap, or leaving a slow, cold compost pile breakdown at a leisurely pace, you need to be able to recognize when decomposition is complete. What does finished compost…
What To Put In Your Compost Bin (And What To Leave Out)
Are you sure you’re recycling everything you possibly can on your compost heap? After all, the more material you put in, the more black gold you’ll get out later! If you’d like to save your kitchen waste…
Why Does My Compost Pile Smell So Bad?
A healthy, efficient compost pile should have very little odor. And the finished compost should smell sweet and earthy when you dig it out. If your pile has a nasty smell that hits you before you even…
Composting Wood Chips And Shavings
Composting wood chips and shavings is a little trickier than composting softer materials, but it can be done. If you have a surplus of woody material from animal bedding, pruning trees and shrubs in your yard, or…
Why Is My Compost Pile Not Breaking Down
Your compost pile is just sitting there. Doing nothing. A big heap of all the things you added to it, looking exactly the same as they did the day you dumped them on the pile. You on…
Where To Locate A Compost Pile
Deciding where to locate a compost pile is an important business. It’s not the prettiest garden feature so I’m always tempted to put my compost pile in an unloved, unused, out-of-sight part of the yard! But I…
Compost Starters And Accelerators – Do You Need Them?
Compost starters and accelerators, alongside activators, rejuvenators, and other similarly-named products are sold with the promise of being able to bring a dormant compost heap back to life. They’re liquids or powders, designed to be incorporated into…