Make the work of our friendly microbes so much easier by chopping up those big bits of scrap food we add to the pile either in the kitchen or out at your compost pile.

Giving special attention to your layering technique and diversifying your ingredients will help your compost microbes feast, stay alive, and thrive, while creating beautiful compost.

If your compost pile never seems to fill up, always seems dry and powdery and no matter how many kitchen scraps and garden prunings you put in, It could be that a tree is stealing your compost.

The lower temperatures of cool compost mean we can’t trust the heat of our pile to stop rodents getting the high value food scraps we might want to process.

There is both fear and mystique surrounding the turning of compost piles. Many people never turn their compost, but there are benefits to turning that are worth the effort.

Listen to Yimby’s Joel Meadows and Mikaela Beckley chatting with ABC Central Victoria’s Breakfast host Fiona Parker on all things hot compost, as well as listener questions.

Every time you build another layer of your compost pile, finish your composting session by covering your pile with a generous capping of carbon rich materials, such as straw.

Hot compost is a sign that we are getting our compost in balance. There is a fever that gardeners catch once they have made their first successful hot compost pile and the benefits of hot composting are formidable, today we have a look at five of them.

In my work as a compost educator I have stuck my nose into quite a few compost piles, and I can tell you that not all compost piles smell the same.

It’s easy to tell whose composting is going well, people are keen to talk about it and know what a boost it is to their gardens. Others are a little more…coy about how their compost is going.