Compost Awareness Week

This week is Compost Awareness Week. So, now is a good time to find out how to compost your veg peelings, cardboard packets and tea bags etc by visiting http://www.compostawarenessweek.org.uk/events/index.html

You might also find that your council is running a special offer on compost bins, kitchen caddies, green cones or bokashi buckets.

If you've never done so before, make today the start of a lifetime of composting. If you don't have a garden, you can still compost your apple cores and coffee grounds in a waterproof plastic bag and scatter the resultant compost on your window boxes, so long as you observe the one part brown stuff to 2 parts green stuff rule.

As it happens, I've just ordered a couple of bokashi buckets and a supply of bran containing anaerobic bacteria. I'm hoping to be able to put all my the food scraps I can't put in the compost heap in them to reduce the amount we are putting in the dustbin. Apparently it renders meat, bread and cooked food into something that is compostable without attracting rats, but you also get a liquid from the process that can be used diluted as a plant fertiliser. It seems that undiluted you can use it to clean drains!