This is one hungry little bin and unless you’re prepared to feed it it won’t thrive. If you have surplus food for it however it will repay you by feeding the soil’s insatiable appetite for organic matter. Continue reading
Dogs wouldn’t search out mineral or non-organic phosphorus because they don’t see it as food. Incidently neither do honey bees recognise refined sugar as food initially. Continue reading
Up In Smoke – a documentary by Adam Wakeling Alley cropping This film isn’t the Cheech and Chong version but documents poor Mike Hands a soil scientist from the UK who has spent his working life trying to convince others … Continue reading
You may already know that biodynamic gardening is ‘something to do with planting by the moon’ or even that it involves stuffing cow horns with manure. Sounds odd doesn’t it but can this method of farming and gardening brought forth … Continue reading
Are compost thermometers a necessary piece of kit or just a bit of fun? Any detailed information about composting will sooner or later talk about ‘hot’ compost and that inevitable leads to a discussion of temperatures. Owning a compost thermometer … Continue reading
Compost aerators on Amazon. Compost Aerators are useful tools to ‘agitate’ your compost heap. Agitating helps add air and mixes the new and already decomposing materials. This is recommended for two reasons: food mixed with earth and decomposing microfauna is … Continue reading
Beehive composters on the market: Brightgreenlive’s (via Amazon) small beehive composter in untreated, unpainted natural pine. Self assembly is required and they recommend treating somehow. Pine is a soft wood so this will not last for many years but the … Continue reading