The Perfect Home Compost

[LittleWingSoul]

I have 'treated' myself to a lovely wooden composter (pic attached!) for our tiny garden.

I am lucky in that my local council takes our food scraps - cooked/uncooked, bones, bread, everything and anything. It also takes our garden waste - clippings, leaves, small branches etc - separately.

Which means I can probably be very selective so as not to overfill my compost bin.

What would you put in it to get optimum results? Keeping in mind that I don't have to put anything in there that will slow it down or potentially ruin it!

I had a new compost bin this year and put it in a new part of the garden. For several months there were no worms about but all of a sudden there are hundreds. My experience would say , hang on and they will find you!

These particular red worms that will eat through corn cobs, @yikesanotherbooboo? I think we just have standard worms here... Do you think the red ones would find me too?

If you google "red wiggler worms" there are lots of UK sources. Some are even mail order.

I had a big plastic compost bin that our city sold as a special deal to encourage composting. The nicest part of that was it was rodent proof and it had a trap door in the bottom so you could shovel out the mature compost easily.

I was fun to see it steaming away on a cold winter day.

I'm fairly sure they just home in on the compost bin.