Composting

Have a beautiful garden and grow great vegetables by composting at home in a bin or container. Compost is the natural way to fertilise your garden and recycle your garden and kitchen waste. This composting guide will have you creating quality garden compost in no time at all.

An alternative method of recycling garden & kitchen organics If you have the space, trench composting is a cool method which involves less work but takes longer to mature, taking from six months to two years depending on the nature of materials used, climate, and aeration conditions. Compost made in this manner will still heat up at first, bu...

Feed your food scraps to EM bugs. Effective Micro-organisms (EM) are a great way to recycle most kitchen organics (not bones or liquids), especially if you have limited space. Simply place your food scraps in an airtight container and add EM Bokashi to kick start the fermentation process. At the same time EM Bokashi neutralises odours and breaks...

Compost is a mixture of organic material and is used as fertiliser. Generally, the ingredients used to make compost come from our gardens and kitchens (food scraps) although organic material is anything that was once living. Compost results from the eventual decomposition or break down of the ingredients. It can take anywhere between two and 18 mon...