Did you know in Australia at home we throw out 2.5 million tonnes of compost potential at home into the bin each year? When it comes to composting, there’s so much jargon, do’s, don’ts, mystery and magic, that it can easily get overwhelming and confusing. We are here to dispel some myths, provide clarity and show you the many paths you can take to turn your house into a composting machine. It is time to say “Hasta La Vista Baby” to food waste and hello to the gardening gold that is compost. Compost with us if you want to live.

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People are always asking us "Hey Little Veggie Patch duderinos, what's your ultimate, fast, fool proof way to compost? I understand that it's hard to create perfect compost in small spaces, and I really like worms and admire the work they do, while on the other hand don't want rats coming in and spoiling the party.... and by the way, how do you get to the compost once it's been created.

Little Veggie Patch duderino: "Hmmm, yes, I'm glad you asked..."

After years of plotting, planning and perpetually perplexing from our trials and errors, we've settled on this compost/worm system. Without hesitation we have called it our "Ultimate Compost Set Up!"

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Psssst… yeah you, come closer, we want to let you in on a little secret, consider this the Berlin underground clubs of the compost world. It’s ok we know the bouncer, so you can skip the line and head straight to the bar of in-ground composting. This in-situ form of composting, means your compost is already at ground zero and doesn’t need to be lugged from the compost bin to your garden beds. Soil is being improved as decomposition takes place and you have just bought a room service buffet to the worms and microbes, so they aren’t checking out of this garden bed anytime soon.

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How good is compost? You throw a bunch of organic waste into a pile, it heats up, and these things called microbes come along to transform your rubbish into a precious garden commodity! The earth has been doing this forever, locked in an endless cycle of growth, death, decay, compost and fertilisation. Nutrients are reused again and again. In this way, composting is the ultimate form of recycling, and there is no greater satisfaction than seeing those tangible results in your own garden.

Fully matured compost is pH neutral and can be used to propagate seeds, but when added to your patch holistically it’s like a shot in the vein. It contains a broad spectrum of nutrients and all the essential trace elements so that it not only boosts a plant’s growth, but also the overall activity of life in your soil. Compost is the number one candidate for making soil into something living and correcting any imbalances. It wins Soil Additive of the Year hands down every year.

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It’s hard to ignore the collective change in behaviour when it comes to our recycling and composting habits. At last we’re beginning to see waste from a different perspective - the ‘wasteful’ one - and we are now considering the cycle of our unnecessary rubbish. Like the one use plastic bag to hold some groceries, or the coffee cup that we thought was recyclable, and in particular, the organic matter that should always head towards a composting unit.

Composting has always been limited by our behavioural habits. With the exception of a few, most will chose whatever option is the easiest and that takes the mess the furthest from our minds. Conventional home composting is often seen as too unsightly, too messy or too inefficient to consider. The smaller the scale, the more that these functionality problems are pronounced.

For one, even the smallest composting bins are large, hulking objects. Not only will they take up valuable garden real estate - that fewer people have - but in a world of increasing garden vanity, a tower of black plastic is never the object of desire we want it to be, yet alone fit in most peoples’ yards. Another issue is that they are easily infiltrated by pests.  A lot of compost bins are open at the bottom, which means that any motivated rat with a little initiative need only to dig a couple of centimetres to reach a sumptuous vegetarian buffet.

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