Home composters

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THERE is nothing like home-made compost for improving your garden soil. It adds bulk and fibre, along with some nutrients (depending what went into it) and encourages worm activity. Worms aerate the soil as they move through it and leave behind nutrients for plant growth as they process the compost, mixing it into the soil much better than a fork.

Making compost is as easy as piling up garden waste, but making good compost requires a bit more attention, and one way to make this simpler is to keep all the compost together in a container. They used to be called compost bins, but are now known