What is better a traditional compost heap or a new style plastic compost bin?
Q. More than anything else, my garden produces grass clippings, but these make the compost sticky and smelly, what is the answer? Q. What is the best thing to with all the piles of autumn leaves that I sweep up from my garden. Warning – Making garden compost can become addictive. In extreme cases, it is possible to see the garden as a being an elaborate means of keeping the compost heaps going. Q. My heap doesn’t seem to get hot at all like it’s supposed to. A. The usual reason is that there’s not enough material added at one go. There needs to be a reasonable amount of fresh material added to get the temperature rising. If you are adding a lot of material and it still isn’t getting warm, the reason might be; Not enough nitrogen – too much brown material, not enough green. The heap is too dry. The material is too large pieces and needs cutting up. Q. My heap is slimy and smelly and quite disgusting. A. Too many grass clippings is the usual reason. Mix them with brown material if possib
