Compost heaps can be designed to suit gardens of all sizes. You can build your own or choose from a whole range of specially designed bins, available at garden centres and through internet and ...

We’ve talked about the various ways leaves can be repurposed to help enrich your ... word is composting. Most of us know yard ...

How long will it take? Begin in spring to have compost by autumn. Compost can be made all year round. 1 Help your children to set up the compost bin or site, ensuring the bin is placed on earth ...

Composting is an affordable and easy way to deliver much-needed nutrients to your garden beds, borders and potted plants while reducing garden and household waste. Many pre-made compost products ...

Create a purposeful, nutrient-rich compost heap in your garden with these simple steps ... Solution: You can buy commercial accelerants but if you add more green waste and make sure there's water, it ...

By creating your own compost, you save on transport, land and energy needed to process your food waste and produce new compost (the kind you buy in bags at the garden centre). Instead, you’ll be ...

Home composting is an easy and effective way to deal with garden waste and food scraps from your kitchen. Bugs and microbes found naturally in the soil in your garden break down this waste to make ...

You can grow fruit and vegetables in containers too. How? Plant your seeds (organic where possible) or seedling in some peat-free compost then water and leave in a sunny spot. You can make your own ...

• Oliver Whyte’s garden, Coill an Chúir at Sandyhill, Westport, is included on the Clew Bay Garden Trail. A chain of ...

A good size for efficient composting is a pile/bin that is between three to five cubic feet. This allows good heating of the ...