Compost Ingredient List:
Paper towels/napkins
Post-it notes
Facial tissue
Shredded cardboard cereal boxes
Shredded frozen food cardboard boxes (not white or colored, glossy ones)
Shredded cardboard
Shredded newspaper (no slick color pages)
Brown paper bags
Greeting card envelopes
Grocery receipts
Theater tickets
Cotton swabs (no plastic parts)
Freezer-burned vegetables/fruit/fish
Lint from behind refrigerator
Dryer lint (that does NOT contain artificial fibers)
Dust bunnies
Vacuum cleaner bag contents
Hay
Pine needles
Wheat straw
Grass clippings
Weeds (a hot steamy compost pile kills weed seeds)
Peat moss
Alfalfa
Winter rye
Leaves
Seaweed and Kelp
Chicken/Rabbit/Cow/Horse/Goat/Llama manure
Bird/Guinea Pig cage refuse
Bird/Bat guano
Dried jellyfish
Leather dust
Leather wallets
Leather watch bands
Potash rock
Wood chips
Bark
Hops
Starfish
Brewery waste
Hoof and Horn meal
Molasses residue
Gin trash (wastes of the cotton plant)
Fingernail/Toenail clippings
Human hair (do NOT use bleached or
color-treated hair)
Electric razor trimmings
Horse/Pet hair
Animal fur
Feathers
Alfalfa
Coconut hull fiber
Outdated seeds
Wood ashes
Blood meal
Winery waste
Spanish moss
Limestone
Fish meal
Beet waste
Harbor mud
River mud
Soil
Dirt from shoes, boots
Phosphate rock
Cat tail reeds
Bone meal
Clover
Granite dust
Greensand
Straw
Dolomite
Cover crops
Rapeseed meal
Sawdust (from untreated wood)
Flower petals
Wedding bouquets
Old flower arrangements
Houseplant trimmings
Garden waste (disease free only)
Moss from last year's hanging baskets
Coffee grounds including the paper liner
Tea grounds including tea bags
Egg shells
Old pasta
Corncobs
Jello
Milk
Popcorn
Old spices
Old herbs
Melted ice cream
Pumpkin seeds
Citrus waste
Stale potato/tortilla chips
Rhubarb stems
Wheat bran
Nutshells
Moldy cheese
Fish scraps
Apple cores
Outdated yogurt
Lobster/Crab/Shrimp shells
Pie crust
Potato peelings
Onion skins
Watermelon rinds
Olive/Date pits
Peanut shells
Old oatmeal
Bread crusts
Cooked rice
Bad wine
Burned beans
Banana peels
Chocolate cookies
Pickles
Artichoke leaves
Fruit salad
Tossed salad
Leftover, soggy, cold cereal
Burned toast
Macaroni and cheese
Liquid from canned vegetables
Liquid from canned fruit
Old beer
Fish bones
Old peanut butter sandwiches
Spoiled canned food contents (no meat products)
Produce trimmings from grocery store
Ivory soap scraps
Elmer's glue
Toothpicks
Human urine (accelerates that compost pile)
Tobacco waste
Snow
Dead bees and flies
Pencil shavings
Wool scraps
Felt waste
Matches
It's time to get out into the garden! One of the most important ways to help your garden grow is to use compost. You could buy it, but why when you can make your own organic compost by recycling refuse from your home.
Compost is a mixture of decaying organic matter used as an amendment to improve soil structure and provide nutrients. The composting process is largely the result of the activity of aerobic organisms. Compost is located in a "compost pile" which may or may not be contained in a structure called a "compost bin." "Vermicomposting" is the use of worms to make compost. Compost is a vital component of organic gardening.
WARNING!!!
Don't compost
meat, fat, or meat by-products; they stink and attract mice, rats and ants.
Don't compost anything poisonous.
Don't use manures from carnivorous animals.
Human solid waste should not be
used in compost.
That said...
click on the icon below to learn
how to safely compost HUMANURE.
