Ingredients to Include in Your Compost:

Compong your backyard garden or your indoor plants is a healthy and beneficial process your plants and the environment. For those who want to start the fun and fruitful process of compong, you have to be sure to keep in mind the good stuff you want to put into your compost. If you've d my earlier article Blacklisted Items to Keep Out of Your Compost, then you should aldy be well aware that things like bones, meat, wood ash and pet waste can be very harmful to your compost and garden. This article will explain to you what you should include in your compong and how it's beneficial to the overall process.

When you're dy to begin compong, whether it's in a compost bin, tumbler or n out in the open, be sure to include these excellent ingredients to make your ideal batch of compost. Food scraps are a gt and easily accessible source of waste compong mainly because ry single household produces it almost daily. Scraps like fruit rinds, old vegetable leaves and stalks, and n coffee grounds make excellent compong. Coffee grounds are especially rich in nitrogen and work as activators, generating heat and exciting microbes to keep the decomposing process moving. But remember, and I can't emphasize this enough, nr r throw in any meat, dairy products, gse, oils and/or bones; these items will not compose properly or take too long to do so. They also smell bad and will attract rodents and other wildlife.

Animal manure is a gt source rich in nitrogen that also works as an activator, which is always a bonus your compost. The best stuff comes from grass eating animals like llamas, cows, chickens, sheep and rabbits. Nr r throw in any cat, dog or human waste into your compost because one thing, that's just disgung! More importantly, pet and human manure carry all sorts of diseases, parasites and who knows what else, and you wouldn't want that in your garden.

Leaves, grass clippings, dead plants and seedless weeds make gt compong ingredients. Leaves are especially gt compong because of their versatility; if they're dry then they'll release carbon and if they're fresh they'll release nitrogen in your compost. The same can be said about grass clippings. Weeds can be kind of tricky but as long as you carefully inspect that none of the weeds are dy to seed and are free of any pecides or poison, you should be set. Other items like straw, hay, hair and n lint also make good compong ingredients; talk about recycling!

Always keep in mind that as long as long as you include the aementioned items and avoid the bad stuff, you'll achi the ideal black gold soil your garden through this fun and organic process.

*Referenced from Home Compong Made Easy by C. Forrest McDowell, PhD and Tricia Clark-McDowell, 2002.