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Leaves provide all three, whether you leave them where they fall, scatter them in perennial beds or put them in a compost pile.

The 27-year-old urban ecologist and biodiversity educator, originally from New Jersey, has spent the last five years working in composting and native gardening.

If your hatred for the show burns hotter than your oven’s broiler, there’s a brisk business in finding creative new ways to heap verbal compost on the titular host and all her endeavors.

Miraculously, the first ring was quickly discovered after Mr Van Ysseldyk recognised some sausages that his family had thrown out with their compost.

The workshop leaders discussed the possibility of creating a “sacrificial zone,” potentially under trees, where materials such as lead-laced plants are composted.