Composting

You’ve been dutifully throwing kitchen scraps and garden waste into your compost bin since March, and now it’s August and you’re staring at a half-rotten mess that looks nothing like…

Every autumn you rake up bin bags full of leaves, stuff them into the garden waste bin, and watch them disappear into council collection. Meanwhile, the same leaves — left…

You’ve been chucking banana skins, eggshells, and tea bags into a heap at the bottom of the garden for months, and all you’ve got is a soggy pile that smells…

You’re standing over the compost bin with a handful of onion skins, wondering if they’ll make everything smell awful. Or maybe you’ve just scraped chicken bones off a plate and hesitated — surely those break down eventually? The truth is, composting has simpler rules than most people think, but…

There’s a banana peel on your kitchen counter, last night’s vegetable peelings in the colander, and the compost bin at the bottom of the garden might as well be in…

You lifted the lid on your compost bin last weekend and the smell hit you like a wall. Rotten eggs, maybe something worse. Or perhaps the opposite problem — you’ve…

You’ve been tipping banana skins, tea bags, and carrot peelings into the kitchen bin for years, vaguely aware that they could be doing something useful instead. Maybe you’ve spotted a…