Some local councils now offer subsidised compost bins. A larger garden can easily accommodate a simple heap in a lesser used part of the garden, while even the smallest terrace could accommodate a ...

Depending on the size of your compost heap, you can turn your compost materials into ready-to-use compost in as little as a few months. Factors such as how often you add to your heap impact how ...

They feed on the waste, breaking it down into hot compost. Don't put large quantities of the same waste in the heap together, particularly grass clippings. Instead, mix a variety of other waste.

Seaweed has a wonderful benthic weirdness; it’s so rubbery and alien, yet when you add it to the compost heap it becomes velvety, almost ambrosial. In the 17th century, fistfights would break out on ...

Whether you maintained your compost heap through winter or are looking to start one now just in time for summer, it can be easy to feel limited but there are many more options than just ...