HOTBIN owner Clare has a smallholding with 50 chickens, 6 alpacas and is now about to open a cattery (www.clarescattery.co.uk). Following her success with her first two HOTBIN compost bins, she has asked us a number of “smelly based” questions over the past couple of months, the latest of which is ...
Read More »Is your HOTBIN compost good, bad or fabulous?
It could be any of these! Even if your compost looks brown, at one extreme compost can be harmful to plants, at the other, it is nature’s best growing medium. Not all ‘compost’ is the same and you need to know what you have before spreading it on your garden. ...
Read More »HOTBIN composting on an allotment
The HOTBIN was developed to compost all food, garden and grass in the home and garden. We want to know how it works on an allotment; so this week we’ve enlisted the help of Gil and Steve at their Jesmond West Allotment, and Karin at the Morpeth East Green Allotment to help ...
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