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

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.