Beginner Composting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them So you’ve bought a compost bin, you’ve been chucking in your apple cores and tea bags, and a few months later you lift the lid expecting dark, crumbly, garden gold — only to find a soggy, smelly mess that looks nothing like the stuff in the gardening…
Pests in the Compost Bin: Rats, Flies and How to Deter Them Home composting is one of the most rewarding things you can do in a British garden. You reduce household waste, improve your soil, and cut down on the amount of material going to landfill. But for many gardeners — particularly those just starting…
Compost Too Wet or Too Dry: How to Fix the Balance Moisture is the single most misunderstood element of home composting. Get it wrong in either direction and your bin stalls – producing a slimy, foul-smelling mess or a bone-dry pile that simply refuses to break down. The good news is that both problems are…
Why Is My Compost Not Breaking Down? You set up your compost bin with the best of intentions. Kitchen scraps went in, some garden clippings followed, and you waited. Weeks passed, then months. Yet when you lift the lid, the contents look much the same as the day you added them — a soggy pile…
My Compost Smells Bad: Causes and Fixes You set up your compost bin with the best of intentions. Kitchen scraps, a few handfuls of grass clippings, maybe some cardboard torn up from an Amazon delivery. A few weeks later you lift the lid and something genuinely unpleasant hits you square in the face. The neighbours…