Turn kitchen scraps and garden waste into wonderfully rich compost in just a few weeks by learning the art of hot composting.

Insulating your compost pile helps retain the heat generated by microbial activity, which is vital for breaking down organic materials even in colder temperatures. You can achieve this by covering ...

Check moisture regularly by squeezing a handful of compost. If water drips, it's too wet. Regularly turning your compost pile ...

Compost heaps can be designed to suit gardens of all sizes. You can build your own or choose from a whole range of specially designed bins, available at garden centres and through internet and ...

The microorganisms produce enough metabolic heat to increase temperatures inside the compost pile and kill weed seeds and pathogenic bacteria and viruses. Composting is scalable based on the ...

By Times’ Junior Journalist Rio Carter Why go out to a plant shop to buy potting or garden mix when you can do it yourself, ...