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sizeable compost heap.  Just woken up to the error on my ways... Can anyone suggest ways to encourage the offending material to compost down fully.  I'm thinking  -  ways to warm up the compost?, perhaps leave for a long time (how long??), anything else

I have inherited a green Johanna Composter in my new house. I can't see an easy way to get the compost out the bottom. There are a couple of panels at teh bottom but they are screwed in, do I have to unscrew them everytime I want to use it? Cheers

Great post - love all things composting. Compost heap is a thriving eco-system of bacteria, fungi and worms decomposing waste and other predators moving in to eat them up (spiders)Read with interest that you are only getting compost infrequently (10

Last week I wrote about the wood mouse that has taken up residence in my compost bin. So far I have resisted urges to check up on it, but have enjoyed the odd fleeting glimpse as I've added fresh waste to the bin.With the new resident fresh in my

My two compost bins are being very productive. As well as yielding their first crop of usable compost, now spread over back and front gardens to great effect, they are also home to a heaving mass of wildlife. Every time I open the lids a great cloud

Hi Kate this not about compost but about your Sid,I think he has moved to Ewell I was woken by a blackbird at 5am this morning singing his lovely head off,All I have is worms and slugs in my compost bin.Oldchippy. all l have is weeds  in my compost

There's a mouse living in my compost bin. I first saw it one evening the other week, when I added a fresh layer of tomato side shoots and yellowing leaves. It leapt out of the bin and charged through the border. That frog looks just like a mouse, I

We have a bumblebee nest in our compost bin. I first noticed a month ago when the first few workers started coming and going. Now we have a steady stream. The bees are buff-tailed, Bombus terrestris, one of our commonest species.I've told the family

sharpish but have no potting compost and I'm on a zero budget. The compost hasn;t come to much from last year, Theough the C/N ratio is fine, there isn;t enough heat in there and there's not much humus at the bottom. Neighbours have been putting non

I'm a great fan of wormeries. I feed all my kitchen waste to the hungry brandling worms inside the wormery bins, which turn it into wonderful compost.There's been a definite chill in the air for the past few days, so I'll move the bins into my