Composting, Garden Tips
How To Make Compost For Your Garden
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Tips For Composting:
- Add your Green Material – this can include kitchen scraps (eggshells, coffee grounds, fruit & vegetable peelings, fruit cores, etc.) and scraps from the yard (weeds, leaves, grass clippings, manure, sawdust, etc.) These scraps are high in nitrogen.
- Add your Brown Material – this can include sawdust, branches, twigs, straw, shredded paper, etc. These materials are high in carbon. There should be a 50/50 disbursement between the green and brown materials (nitrogen and carbon).
- Water your Compost – Add water to your compost regularly so it remains damp. Do not add too much water as the contents of the pile will drown. The compost pile should stay consistently damp, but not soaking wet. The compost pile should be hot in the middle.
- Turn your Compost Pile – Stir/Shuffle your compost every 1-2 weeks to provide oxygen to the pile. Continue to mix the green and brown materials together. Move the outer layer toward the center to expose the decomposing materials.
- What NOT to Compost: Meat & Fish; Diseased, Invasive Weeds; Charcoal Ash; Dog/Cat Waste; Dairy, Fats, Oils
