Welcome to the Maze Composting community! If you picked up your Maze Compost Tumbler at Bunnings, congratulations on taking the first step to greener, healthier gardening. Our dual-compartment tumbler is built to make composting simple and efficient—so you can transform kitchen scraps and garden clippings into nutrient-rich compost for your plants, season after season.
PRE ORDER: FEB. - Composting Cart
PRE ORDER: FEB. - Composting Cart
Meet Connie
Connie is this month’s Maze Ambassador. Connie is an urban permaculture gardener, photographer, and gardening content creator at @connieandluna. Connie is the author of Your Asian Veggie Patch (Murdoch Books, 2024) and contributes to ABC Organic Gardener Magazine and ABC Radio Melbourne Drive.
Composting FAQs
What materials can I compost at home?
Most fruit and vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, eggshells, tea leaves, garden clippings, dried leaves, and grass cuttings are compostable. Avoid composting meat, dairy, cooked foods, or oily products, as these can attract pests and slow the composting process.
How long does the composting process take?
Composting time varies based on your method and materials. With regular turning and the right mix of greens and browns, home compost can be ready in as little as 2–4 months, but it often takes 6 months to a year for finished compost.
Why does my compost smell bad?
A smelly compost tumbler is usually too wet, lacks enough air, or has too many food scraps and not enough dry material. To fix this, turn your tumbler more regularly, add more dry leaves or shredded paper, and ensure you are not adding meat or dairy.
Why do I need to turn my compost?
Turning your compost tumbler helps get air into the pile, which speeds up decomposition and reduces odours. For most home bins, turning your tumbler several times a week is ideal.
hat’s the best way to use finished compost in the garden?
Spread finished compost over garden beds, mix it into potting soil, or use it as mulch around trees and shrubs. Compost improves soil structure, adds nutrients, and helps your plants grow healthier.
Let customers speak for us
It fits perfectly around my 240 × 120 cm low raised bed, with quick assembly and a sturdy structure. At last, cabbage moths, possums, birds, and slugs/snails don’t stand a chance. I’m excited to finally harvest fresh herbs and vegetables without the hassle.
Extra Christmas gift. This was a great gift for family members, who love gardening. I added some seeds and soil. I even gifted myself on for my herbs and strawberries 🍓
I do love these garden tunnels as they fit so perfectly in our raised garden beds (totally unintentional as we have had the garden beds for about 5 years!). Only one downside to them is that they need zip openings on both sides. I cannot properly reach the far side of our garden beds and I am wasting growing space. However, I think I have solved my problem, but no spoiler alerts right now!
Easy to put together but no instructions re initial water levels,water level flower indicator does not have any markings re full or add water apart from that it seems to be well made.
Hope they last.
Very handy outdoor sink,
Good quality and functional. Great design.
I have wanted one of these planters for ages. The ones from Maze are affordable. Because I pre-ordered, the kept me up tp date with when it was shipped. I have planted my lettuce in the stackable planter. Its growing beautifully. I have also had problems with rodents and possums eating my lettuce. The planter was easy to put a frame around it with chicken wire.
I bought this worm farm for my granddaughters and they love it, they’re so excited to set it up and feed the worms.
Perfect for protecting our summer crops from all the caterpillars and hoppers. A must have for green success.
Perfect in all respects as well as strong and flexible
A great boost to the existing worm farm.
An excellent product.
The product is excellent, and maze products were OK to deal with. However the carrier was quite slow, even taking the time of year into consideration
