This is a couple of minutes well-spent with an anonymous person from Expert Village who says: “Whether you garden or you don’t garden, you should make compost. It is a great thing to do and removes your compost from the waste stream.” Okay. She recommends a certain type of composter. It’s like a huge plastic bag and is in fact made of recycled plastic with holes punched in the sides. Get one cheap from your local dump or town office.

Then start making compost. Don’t worry about smells: if you build a compost pile the right way there won’t be a problem. It will have a very nice fragrance actually, kind of nutty. The way to do it is to have a wide variety of stuff (peelings, vegetable leaves, eggshells etc.) in layers and the pile must not be too wet, so mix it with dried leaves, weeds or whatever. I like this bit: you should churn in a shovelful of compost to get the whole thing going. It reminds me of making yogurt!