I'm sure I'm not alone in having #gardening questions. And my list of questions keeps getting longer because I'm not on Insta or FB to send them in to #gardeningAustralia
For example I am puzzled by this one; In his great book Soil Matthew Evans advocates not disturbing your soil because it breaks the established network of fungal mycelia. So won't a #compost tumbler do the same each time you tumble your compost to aerate it?
@ecoscore It depends with what you are trying to achieve, most compost are meant to cultivate good bacteria for the soil, in that case they need a lot of air because compost is by definition an aerobic process.
But if you are doing a compost that is more fungal dominant like leaf mold, you do not need to turn it or to put it in a tumbler. Nature will do it's work and you can use it when it is ready without turning.
In the case of a garden bed it is better to build it from the top and layer the organic matter on top without disturbing it. The micro biology will take care of the turning if it has enough oxygen.
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