Your compost has needs too

3 June 2016

Pretty much any food and garden matter can go into compost, right? Wrong.
Composts, like people, have their likes and dislikes, and gardeners can learn those and more at a Taranaki Regional Council home garden composting workshop at Tupare on Sunday, 12 June.

CompostDo you love coffee? So does your compost – at least it loves coffee grounds – and it also likes leaves. It doesn’t like onion skins and lemon peels (they’re too acidic), and meat won’t nourish it, but it will feed the local vermin.

Everything needs to be given in the right quantities, of course, and the facilitators – Tupare garden manager Mitch Graham and gardener Richelle Landers – will cover those details, and explain what constitutes and promotes the health of rich, heathy compost, and which biodegradable products can be added to the mix.

The workshop will run from 2pm to 4pm at Tupare, 487 Mangorei Rd, New Plymouth, and participants need bring only themselves and perhaps a notebook, although there will be handouts.

- Tupare, Pukeiti and Hollard Gardens are the three heritage properties owned and administered by the Taranaki Regional Council on behalf of the people of the region.

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