Amateur Gardening

A beginner’s guide to making compost

Nutritional, well balanced compost is vital for growing seedlings and mulching borders, and with the price of everything skyrocketing, there has never been a better time to make your own. Home composting saves you time, money and trips to the tip - plus the end product is packed with nutrients and good bacteria that your soil will love.

Starting out, you may worry about getting composting ‘wrong’. Will it smell? Do I need to

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