Have you ever discovered an ashy, white, filamentous fungi-looking thing in your compost pile? What is it?

YIMBY’s Lucy Young, Joel Meadows, Mikaela Beckley and Claudia Lang chat with Saltgrass’s host and producer Allie Hanley.

Over the last couple of weeks we have celebrated the impressive skills of the bacteria and fungi in our compost piles.

Neither a plant or an animal, fungi are unique, often misunderstood, and essential to making a good compost.

Let’s take a look at bacteria, the single-celled organisms at the bottom of almost every food chain, including our compost.

With the coming of Spring’s warmer weather, many of us are heading off on holiday. What does this mean for our compost?

The perfect compost ratio is approx 30-parts carbon to one-part nitrogen. But what is a carbon nitrogen ratio?

Moisture plays a key role in our compost pile. We can keep an eye on it throughout the cycle by simply giving it a squeeze.

If your compost has dried out too much don’t stand there with the hose running, this will just wash nutrients away from the pile and waste water, pre-soak!

Spring is well and truly here, and every opportunistic, weedy species in every bed, nook and path of our garden is quite literally ‘making hay while the sun shines’.