Week 24: Make soil and save Earth…

This weeks challenge is to start composting food scraps, cardboard and waste paper, such as kitchen towels.

I remembered from when I bought the water butt that www.recycleworks.co.uk talked about this so I visited them again. But apart from selling the compost bins (not cheap!) and other items I couldn’t find much about what to compost and other handy tips to get me started.

So I did a Google search and came up with www.recyclenow.com which has a 5 easy steps page on the do’s and don’ts of composting – just what I needed. So now I know what to do I need a bin and guess what? I typed my postcode into their site and they came up with offers in conjuction with my local council and I have now ordered a FREE composting bin! What a fantastic way to incentivise good practice.

I can’t wait to start collecting my ‘greens’ - vegetable peelings, fruit waste, teabags, plant prunings and grass cuttings. Apparently these are quick to rot and they provide important nitrogen and moisture. – and ‘browns’ - cardboard egg boxes, scrunched up paper and fallen leaves. These are slower to rot but provide fibre and carbon.

And maybe next year my garden will be blooming lovely!