CIWEM Calls for More UK Composting Quality Control

PAS100 quality compost ready for use

With pressure on Council’s to achieve cost efficiences in their waste disposal, and the big potential for income from the sale of compost, now that chemical fertilisers are becoming so expensive, coupled with the many advantages in soil improvement that compost gives, has pompted this announcement for more UK composting Quality Control, from the CIWEM. The CIWEM is the UK [...] Read more »

Compost Toilet First for Bexley Allotment, London

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I find the idea of compost toilets a little bit too far advanced to stomach. I suppose that I have been to just too many outdoor music concerts with soil toilets, and that has given the whole idea a hugely negative association! So, I read this article with both trepidation and interest. To form your own opinion please do either [...] Read more »

Chemistry Theory Isn’t to Everyone’s Liking but It Would Be Good for Your Compost

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Not only isn’t Chemistry theory to everyone’s liking, it isn’t to the liking of “yours truly”! I really don’t like to have to think about technically brain-taxing things like soil chemistry when I am out gardening, but the cold fact of the matter is that if you can bring yourself to bone-up on the chemistry of what is going on [...] Read more »

Not Wasting Food Is Greener Than Composting It

A recycle bin isn't the be all and end all to the matter of food waste!

We evidently started our blog just at the right time according to the Windsor Star. This is an article with which I have a great deal of sympathy. It’s a fact that avoiding the production of waste is of course far better than doing anything like composting later. Yes, please – the message is that we must avoid the waste [...] Read more »

Gardeners Should Be Starting Their Compost Heap in the Autumn

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We evidently started our blog just at the right time according to the Windsor Star. With the leaf fall every year comes a huge amount of good composting material. You will need to mix it as much as possible though of course with lawn mowings and the remains of the summer’s annual planting, and other prunings from your borders. Gardeners [...] Read more »

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