Compost your kitchen waste

It’s easy to recycle your kitchen scraps into rich garden compost that will add a valuable boost to your pots and borders.

Keep a kitchen caddy next to the kitchen sink, where it’s easy to throw in your vegetable and fruit waste, peelings, juicing pulp, coffee grounds and teabags (double check they are plastic free first) and crushed eggshells. For convenience, line your caddy with a compostable bag, lifting the bag and all its contents out when full, otherwise rinse your caddy thoroughly between fills.

Add the contents to your compost heap or bin, located in a shady corner of the garden. Look to have a garden heap of at least 1m x 1m. If your space is limited, a compost bin also works really well, generally open ended at the base to allow earth worms to enter.