Kitchen scraps keep arriving all winter, the autumn leaves ran out weeks ago, and the garden is producing nothing dry. The bin is now a cold, heavy, wet mass that smells sour. Every guide says add more browns. None of…
Small urban garden, a closed tumbler and a bokashi bucket, foxes on the street and rats in the alley behind. I throw away chicken carcasses and bones most weeks and it feels absurd when I am composting everything else.…
Opened the bin this morning and the underside of the lid is covered in tiny white specks that jump when I get close. There are also small white things crawling in the bedding near the top. The worms look fine and are…
I have two full bags of pulled bindweed with roots and a barrow of grass that flowered before I got to it. My pile is a two bay pallet setup that gets hot for a week after a big build and then coasts. I would rather not…
Built a cubic metre pile in one go, mixed leaves and grass and some horse manure. It climbed to about 140F within 48 hours, held for three days, and then dropped to ambient over the next week. I've turned it twice since…
Winter means we get through a lot of oranges and I end up with a bowl of peel most days. The outdoor heap takes it without complaint, if slowly, but the last time I put a decent amount in the worm bin the worms went to…
Filled a 200 litre dual chamber tumbler with two weeks of kitchen scraps, coffee grounds and some grass clippings. It's now a heavy sludge that sloshes when I turn it, and opening the hatch smells sharply of ammonia.…
Garden is about five metres by five, mostly paved, and we produce maybe four litres of kitchen scraps a week plus a bit of garden waste. Neighbours are close on two sides so I'm wary of anything that smells or attracts…
First year composting and I'm somewhere with real winters, snow cover from November to March and the pile frozen solid for a good chunk of it. Started the pile in June, it's now a dark crumbly mass with recognisable…