Sort Out My Compost Heap
QUICK GUIDE: What's Wrong with Your Compost?
- It's wet, slimy or smelly → Add dry browns and improve airflow.
- It's dry and nothing is happening → Add moisture and some fresh green material.
- It's full of grass clippings → Try Complete Rot for Grass.
- It's taking forever → Check the conditions and consider Compost Culture.
- I want to compost more kitchen waste → Start with Bokashi.
- I need a better compost bin → Explore Green Johanna.
- I'd like to make worm compost → Choose a wormery.
1. Bokashi — The Clever Way to Give Your Compost a Head Start
Ferment it first. Compost it next. Feed your soil.
This is one of our favourite ways to make composting work harder.
With Bokashi, you ferment your kitchen waste in a sealed bucket using Bokashi bran. You can include cooked food, meat, fish and dairy, as well as ordinary vegetable scraps.
After around 10–14 days of fermentation, the contents are ready for the next stage.
Mix fermented Bokashi into a suitable, well-managed composting system and it provides readily degradable organic material for the microorganisms to work on. That can help stimulate biological activity and support decomposition.
It's particularly useful alongside an enclosed composter such as Green Johanna, and it can also be used with a HOTBIN or conventional compost heap where the system and pest protection are suitable.
Our Wiggly tip: Mix fermented Bokashi with plenty of dry, carbon-rich material. It's not finished compost yet, and your heap still needs air and the right moisture.
2. Green Johanna — Make More of Your Kitchen and Garden Waste
A proper composting system for a busy household.
Our 330-litre Green Johanna is an enclosed composter designed for kitchen and garden waste.
Combine it with Bokashi fermentation and you've got a practical system for handling a much wider range of household food waste.
Add your fermented Bokashi with suitable garden materials and browns, and let the composting organisms get to work.
Choose this if: You want a substantial composting system that makes the most of your household waste.
3. SOIL & SENSE Compost Culture — Help Your Composting Biology
Because it's the microorganisms that do the hard work.
Compost Culture is designed to introduce composting microorganisms and support the natural breakdown of organic material.
It's a useful addition when you're trying to improve a sluggish compost heap, provided you've also sorted out the moisture, airflow and balance of ingredients.
Choose this if: You want to give the biology in your composting system a helping hand.
4. Complete Rot for Grass — Sort Out Those Slimy Clippings
Grass clippings should make compost, not a smelly green pudding.
Fresh grass is full of nitrogen and moisture. Pile it up too thickly and it compacts, cutting off the air needed for good composting.
Wiggly Complete Rot for Grass is designed to help manage grass clippings and support their breakdown.
Use it as directed, mixing the clippings with other suitable composting materials.
Choose this if: Your lawn produces more grass than your compost heap seems able to cope with.
5. Wormeries — Let the Worms Do the Recycling
Small creatures. Rather wonderful compost.
A wormery turns suitable kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich worm compost, with the help of composting worms and microorganisms.
Choose an Urbalive Wormery for regular kitchen peelings, a Compact Worm Farm for smaller spaces or an In-Ground Worm Farm to feed your garden beds directly.
Choose this if: You want to turn everyday peelings into something useful for your plants.
WHY WIGGLY?
We've been composting, keeping worms and turning waste into something useful since 1990.
And here on our Herefordshire farm, we're using many of the same principles to build healthier soils through regenerative farming.
Because composting isn't just about getting rid of waste.
It's about putting something valuable back into the soil.
