Want to do it yourself?

But Greenfingers is also a keen supporter of home composting. It saves fuel miles and machinery, and so is the ideal thing for the environment where it’s possible.

Building your own compost heap
Load a 3ft by 3ft heap or bin with a balanced mixture of ‘brown’ carbon rich material, like dried leaves, straw, and wood chips, and ‘green’ nitrogen materials like fresh grass clippings and kitchen scraps.

Properly managed, it becomes soil improver in a month. Leave gaps in your stack or turn it, and keep it moist and warm. For health, hygiene, and ease you shouldn’t compost meat, fish, dairy products, oils, pet waste, coal or coke ash or disposable nappies.

Let the worms do the work
Wormeries use less space than compost and can get rid of kitchen scraps which you can’t put in your garden waste bin. You need a container about one square foot for every pound of waste, with drainage holes drilled in the bottom.

Fill two thirds with well-soaked shredded cardboard or paper. Add a pound of redworms (Eisenia foetida) for every half pound of waste, load your container up slowly, and keep it moist and warm.

Want to know more?
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