Home Composting for dummies

Why wouldn’t you want to turn your free kitchen waste into good quality compost you can use on your plants!?

For those with private gardens or a bit of outdoor space*, composting certainly seems to make a whole lot of sense. However, for me it’s not always gone in one end and come out of the other as a nice dark, crumbly compost like the stuff you buy from the garden centre.

Newly discovered to me, the RecycleNow website however has had a fantastic makeover with some good advice on home composting answering the most common queries such as (I apparently wasn’t aerating enough!):

• What can I put in my bin?
• What to do if it’s too green or too brown
• Can I put this in my compost bin?

Also check out the Royal Horticultural Society’s guide to home composting and the How To Videos from GardenOrganic.org.uk.

* There are some options for those with little or no outdoor space, such as the NatureMill. However the fairly steep price tag might put most off, and for those in rental accomodation a simple counter-top solution (with filters to prevent smells) might be more suitable. Councils will often provide a similar tub to you for free, so it’s worth checking with your local office.