Mariam got her YOLO Compost Tumbler last week. She writes, “I’m absolutely delighted with my YOLO! I’m getting so obsessive that I’m taking vegetable scraps away from other people’s tables”. We can relate. Mariam also asked about composting citrus.
You can put egg shells into your YOLO Compost Tumbler. Egg shells are rich in calcium, which plants use to build strong cell walls. Fast growing vegetables like tomatoes and squash thrive with sufficient calcium in the soil. Egg shells break down slowly so remember to crush them into small pieces to speed up the …
I popped in to visit friends on Monday. They’ve had their double YOLO Compost Tumbler for about three weeks now. They took me around back to show me their compost progress. They are busy adding kitchen waste to the one shell. The second one, to my surprise, was full! Of compost! They had dug out …
Waste and recycling conscious couple Taryn and Hugh have added a double YOLO Compost Tumbler to their home for their organic and kitchen waste. “Our little recycling station,” Taryn writes. Their bins look so bright and colourful.
The next time you wonder just what to do with the drifts of autumn leaves in your garden and along the pavements of your neighbourhood, watch this humorous and informative 17-minute TED talk by Mike McGrath. The title “Everything You Know About Composting is Wrong” doesn’t do justice to his passion for autumn leaves and …
Maintaining a healthy compost comes down to five basics. These include the ingredients that you put into your compost, the size of the material, moisture, temperature and air.
Earthworms are synonymous with compost and you’ll find them in any compost heap. But, they are not needed for composting to happen. Bacteria are the key organisms responsible for the breakdown of plant matter.
You’ve no doubt heard of the back-breaking work involved in turning a compost heap using a pitchfork? That’s why we love the YOLO Compost Tumbler – there’s no heap to be turned.
The YOLO Compost Tumbler should be mounted on a wall or kept on its stand. Both keep it off the ground and inaccessible to rodents. How then do you keep your compost contents free of flies and bad odours?
YOLO Compost Tumblers are well-suited for use in homes that have no gardens and where the main purpose of composting kitchen waste is to reduce the volume of trash that you’re sending to landfill.
