Homemade compost is the ultimate soil food - safe from herbicide/ pesticide/ fungicide residue and full of life! It may seem daunting to make all your own, but with a good setup you totally can. The trick is to incorporate fertility into your garden design. Team that with a good

Homemade compost is the very best fertility for your vegie garden because its alive, minerally rich and stable. Your plants reflect this by growing steadily + strongly, and the reduction in pests and disease is quite something. Homemade looks and smells nothing like bought - it really is far superior. And

A home-made bucket worm-farm costs next to nothing to set-up, takes next to no time to run and yet it turns your food-scraps into gold, aka worm-castings. Worm-castings are good-for-everything! For sick plants, for strong seedlings, for tired soil - it’s no exaggeration to say that they have super

Manure is part of natures deft design - we eat the food that grew on the ground that's fertilised by the manure which began as the food - such an elegant cycle! And manure can, when used well, bring much goodness, but - and it's a

I don't always keep up with compost making. There's many a moment when I have crops ready to plant but no compost to hand. In which case, I whip around the garden and creatively rustle up some soil food, or cheats compost as I affectionately call