Opinion on how my compost looks https://www.allforgardening.com/1274884/opinion-on-how-my-compost-looks/ #composting

My first pile https://www.allforgardening.com/1274174/my-first-pile/ #composting

I think I did good. I love those aluminum cans. https://www.allforgardening.com/1274032/i-think-i-did-good-i-love-those-aluminum-cans/ #composting

Scary at first sight https://www.allforgardening.com/1273924/scary-at-first-sight/ #composting

#Composting helps take a bite out of the #foodwaste piling up in #landfills

https://www.ideastream.org/show/sound-of-ideas/2025-04-24/composting-helps-take-a-bite-out-of-the-food-waste-piling-up-in-landfills

My wife is beside herself with excitement and joy... because I've found a way to join her in her hobby.

She's a keen #gardener. Two allotment plots and a home garden. I help out with the building of things. I built her shed/summerhouse, I built her compost bays, I put up fences and grow structures etc.

I HATE (pathologically) getting dirty. I literally want to chuck up. Even when doing something clean like baking I'll feel nauseous when I get dough stuck to my hands. It's even so bad I feel nauseous shaking hands with someone with tattoos! I know, it makes no sense. But some part of my brain thinks the ink will transfer across.

so needless to say I don't do much in the garden to help her out.

She was bemoaning the fact her composting isn't very effective. I'm a science guy. I did a brief google.. then an #Autistic deep dive.

I presented her with a breakdown of a #composting process involving anaerobic hot composting/waste fermentation coupled with an easy compost mixing and aeration system.

She's sold! it's a bit of an outlay but not as much as she spends on mulch and compost over a couple of years anyway. And my system should offset that and pay for itself in no time.

So, she's the gardener, I'm (now) the de facto soil scientist armed with reams of chemistry and biology articles looking at Vermiculture , fermentation, microbial health, mycelial growth, nutrient breakdown and general soil health..

plus side? I get to use my microscope too :D

double plus. I get to eat the produce.

triple plus? I don't have to throw out fish and cooked foods. So no more kerbside food waste caddy (which was always disgusting and in the summer a haven for maggots and flies)

Compost spreading today!! This is my best batch ever! https://www.allforgardening.com/1273221/compost-spreading-today-this-is-my-best-batch-ever/ #composting

Successfully got my tumbler to make “hot” compost https://www.allforgardening.com/1272505/successfully-got-my-tumbler-to-make-hot-compost/ #composting

First compost bin https://www.allforgardening.com/1272261/first-compost-bin-3/ #composting

Compost sifting made easy https://www.allforgardening.com/1272153/compost-sifting-made-easy/ #composting

Too airtight to compost? https://www.allforgardening.com/1271563/too-airtight-to-compost/ #composting

Went to the local commercial composter https://www.allforgardening.com/1271449/went-to-the-local-commercial-composter/ #composting