Even so, it's best not to place it next to where you relax and lounge in the garden. To make a compost heap, include anything that contains nutrients. Avoid meat; it needs higher temperatures to ...

Why throw your kitchen scraps in the bin when you could be using them to make your garden more lovely and attractive to wildlife? A compost heap makes a delicious refuge. Larger mammals come to ...

“With basic understanding of the biology of a compost pile, you are well on your way to being a master composter,” said Waylen. As you build a compost system, consider drainage on the location ...

Oh yes, there's no denying that DIY compost is a great budget garden idea, not least of all because it gives you something to ...

You can build your own or choose from a whole range ... detachable so you can get the finished compost out. A slimy compost heap is usually due to too much of one material such as grass clippings ...

The stacking-type composters are convenient and make turning the pile easy. Sadly, these are difficult to find. When starting a compost pile, add several inches of brown material before ...

This is a halfreel film telling its audience how to use inedible parts of plants from their garden to make compost It seems pretty basic stuff but there were a lot of city boys working in what ...

More specifically, if you make compost, you need to put some measures in place to stop compost freezing in winter. Failing to do so will slow your composting down. 'If your compost pile freezes ...

You’ll want logs, either long ones or rounds for the bottom of the heap. Then branches ... the entire bed to kick off the compost process. A good reason to build your bed now is so it gets ...

[Minnear Knives] had a bunch of apricot stones in his compost pile, and it was the pits. He did some research and decided to build his own rotary trommel to tumble out the trash. As you will see ...