What to put in compost!!

[uldis]

Making compost is similar to baking a cake or bread. A good foundation for a recipeis to put together the right ingredients in the correct proportions and mix it right. If you use for compost only grass, it will rot and will turn into a slimy, raw mass. If you use only hard bark and roots, they actually will not compost for years. Compost key to success is to create a balance between the green mass (grass, vegetables, flowers residues) and the brown mass (small twigs, roots, straws). British experts think that in the compost you can put even old woolen and cotton clothes and paper. The best compost material is tree leaves, but only from healthy trees. So good compost ingredients have to be different. Different materials in the compost pile put in different order.

You can put in Compost
- All organic domestic waste:
* Coffee and tea thicknesses
* Fruit and vegetable peelings
* Animal waste - meat and fish waste can also be composted, but note that they may attract a variety of parasites, mouse and rat
-Paper also can be composted, but in small quantities
- Can be composted and annual weeds, except for those with mature seeds
- Can be composted cut grass, flowers, etc. haulms which came.
- Fallen leaves, but only from healthy plants

Must not be composted
- Undecayed waste - plastics, glass, etc..
- Composting is not recommended for heat-treated products with residues of salt added. They later adversely affect plants
- Colored paper and printed promotional leaflets, because they contain heavy metal particles.

[uldis]

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[carolann]

Welcome Uldis, A very interesting mix there, I also put in a hen manure but just a small bucket and then it has to be in there for a good few months before I use it. I never put weeds in if I can help it as I have enough of them growing anyway. ;D

[Barbara]

We have a compost thread on the gardening chat board. it's on page 4.

Welcome to our little forum Uldis.

[Jasmine]

I don't put any sort of meat or fish in my compost - we have quite enough mice without encouraging them! ;D

Welcome Uldis