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Composting

What you can compost

• Leaves

• Grass

• Fruit and vegetable peelings

• Cardboard and paper

You can mix wet, 'green' materials (e.g.peelings and grass clippings) with dry, 'brown' materials (twigs, cardboard and paper).

How to compost

• Open pile in the garden

• Build your own compost box.- boxes keep piles neat and out of reach of children and pets, as well as helping to retain heat and moisture which speed up the composting process

• Buy a bin - £14.00 (plus £5.00 delivery) from Get Composting

• Composting tips - get started, know when it's ready to use

• Troubleshooting compost

Wormeries

• A tough plastic or glass container with a sealed lid, used with a special type of worm

• Good for people with small or no gardens

• Good for organic kitchen waste (e.g. vegetable peelings, tea leaves, coffee grounds, stale bread and hoover dust

• Produces a high quality compost and a concentrated. liquid feed.

• Buy a wormery - From £50 at Get Composting.

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