Ever since I acquired my first garden – and that's quite a long time ago now – I've made compost. I don't recall that ever being a conscious decision; it was just something gardeners did. I'm sure my first compost bin, made from the remains of a Second World War Anderson air-raid shelter, was the only one of its kind, and probably still is.
So you can imagine my surprise on reading the results of a 2022 RHS survey, conducted as part of the organisation's Planet Friendly Gardening Campaign to promote a more sustainable approach to gardening, which revealed that only a third of gardeners compost their
