Composting
Questions & An
swers
DO COMPOST
DO NOT COMPOST
NITROGEN
• Fruit & Vegetable
scraps
• Flowers
• Coffee Grounds
• Weeds
• Barnyard Manure
• Grass Clippings
• Sod
CARBON
• Ash
• Bread
• Coffee Filters
• Dry Leaves
• Egg Shells
• Hair
• Shredded Paper
• Sawdust
• Tea Bags
• Bones
• Cat Litter
• Chicken
• Diapers
• Diseased Plants
• Dog or Cat Feces
• Meat
• Oils & Fats
• Peanut Butter
• Salad Dressing
• Dairy Products
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ORGANIC MATERIALS
These are your yard clippings and the food
that the decomposer organisms feed on,
turning them into compost. The materials
that are suitable for composting are either
carbon materials (brown and dry) or nitrogen
materials (green and moist).
Carbon Materials
Include fallen leaves,
sawdust, and dry
grass clippings.
Nitrogen Materials
Include freshly cut
green grass and fruit
and vegetable scraps
JUST ADD WATER AND STIR
Composting is a very basic process. You can
simply put yard clippings into a pile and let
nature do the rest in its own time. Compost
will happen; yet it will happen very slowly.
You can help it along by providing a balanced
diet and an enriched environment for the
organisms that do the work of composting.
Decomposter organisms are made up of
both microorganisms, such as bacteria, and
macroorganisms, such as worms. Supplying
them with their basic needs, food, water,
and air, will increase the efficiency of their
compost efforts.
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