Compost seems so easy but is really confusing and intimidating unless you get good advice such as you have here!

I tried a compost heap so many times and in so many forms but just couldn't get it right... and finally, this year, I have it!! A week ago I just turned out my first beautiful compost which I dug into the garden beds and then planted the winter crop. It felt sooooo good.

What worked was all of the above advice!
  • Avoidance of meat and dairy
  • balance of brown and green (every now and again I would throw in a heap of ripped up news paper, DD loved helping me shred!)
  • Air circulation - I used a pole with a sort of hook, stuck in the compost pile which I would stab up and down a bit every time I added anything. It aerated the mix in a simple way


I recently saw a clip on gardening Aust where they placed chicken wire rolled up into a tube shape into the center of the compost bin (standing up) and dumped the compost around it. The wire tubes allowed air to get into the heap. I thought that was a great idea.

Just you wait till you realise that you wont have take the rubbish out to the bins as much anymore since food scraps all go a composting !