Gourmet Traveller

THE KITCHEN GARDENER Compost

With cookery, you apply a “method” to particular “ingredients”, in order to make food. It’s the same with composting; you combine particular ingredients in the correct proportions, using a bit of technique and intuition, and cook it for the required length of time, to make food for your soil.

Traditional “hot composting” is a lot like preparing a lasagne. A

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