A complete guide to gardening and garden suppliers in Scotland
Composting: An Easy Household Guide
Paperback: 96pp
Nicky Scott
Chelsea Green
Soil and Composting
Paperback: 128pp
Nancy J. Ondra
Houghton Mifflin

Soil and Compost

Topsoil, compost, worms and manure for Scotland's gardens

Brown Soil
Top quality topsoil delivered to your door in Central Scotland. For contractors, commercial gardeners or just some better quality soil for your garden.

Home Composting with Ask
ASK, the composting experts, are working with householders in the Scottish Borders to help them turn their kitchen and garden rubbish into Garden Gold.

Home Composting - Waste Aware Scotland
Information and FAQs on home composting plus links to some very cheap compost bins and a guide to where you can buy peat free, recycled content compost locally.

Horse Manure
Composted horse manure is available from this West Lothian estate. Collect or free delivery within five miles.

Recycled Compost Retailers
A wide range of peat-free composts available in Scotland for use in the garden as mulch, soil improver and growing media. From the 'Sort-It' site.

Scottish Worms
Compost worms will eat up to half their body weight in waste - ideal for home composting. Wormeries and worm compost bins available.

Smartsoil - The Clever Way to Compost
Ingenious but expensive Swedish composting machines that rapidly (4 weeks is claimed) turn all household waste (including cooked food) into high grade compost.

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