Every batch in the record
Each entry is one charge of one bin, from build to screened output, with the numbers as they came off the bench rather than as they were planned. Thermophilic batches ran above 55 °C; mesophilic ones never crossed it, and say so.
Held 55 °C or above for at least three consecutive days at the core.
Batch log · Cured
120 kg of spent oyster-mushroom blocks, already white with mycelium, and why the single most important step is breaking the blocks apart on the day they arrive.
Batch log · Cured
What happens when you compost at the scale of a small van load: 1,400 L of output, a 78 °C peak, and the outer shell problem that costs you 15 % of the pile if you ignore it.
Batch log · Cured
Six hens, 60 kg of litter, minus 9 °C nights, and the reason a poultry pile needs to be built in one single day rather than accumulated over a month.
Batch log · Curing
Two months of office shreddings, 14 kg of delivery boxes and a nitrogen problem that had to be solved with 2.4 kg of grass, because paper alone will not heat.
Batch log · Cured
A full winter's bedding from one stable box, 340 L of finished compost, and the anthelmintic question that decides whether it can go on a vegetable bed.
Batch log · Cured
Nine mowings over eleven weeks, 780 g of nitrogen-rich clippings per mowing, and the two days the cage went sour because the grass went in wet and matted.
Batch log · Cured
The first bin of the season: 22 kg of last autumn's oak leaves, 6 kg of coffee chaff from a roaster two streets away, and the moisture problem that nearly stalled week two.
Never crossed the 55 °C line. Slower, more forgiving, and often the only realistic option in a cold climate or a small bin.
Batch log · Running
Not everything in a compost bay is trying to be a hot pile. 300 L of chipped privet and hawthorn took 240 days and produced the best mulch in the garden.
Batch log · Cured
No heat, no turning, no smell — but a 20 °C temperature ceiling that makes or breaks the whole system, and the pH drift that a strictly kitchen-scrap diet causes.
Batch log · Cured
The indoor answer for a flat with no garden: 38 kg of food waste fermented in two buckets, buried in a 2 m trench, and the pH readings that decide when the soil is safe for roots.
Batches are added as they finish, so the newest entry on this page is not the newest pile on the bench.