A compost area is important in any garden.

 It's great for soil and plants. 

You can recycle garden waste and some kitchen waste 

 into a free and rich organic compost,

which returns nutrients to the soil to help maintain soil quality.  

It's a slow releasing natural fertiliser that benefits your garden.  

 

Almost any organic material is suitable for composting. 

Your composter or compost pile needs a proper ratio of 

carbon-rich materials, known as “browns,” and nitrogen-rich materials, known as “greens.” 

Among the brown materials are dried leaves, straw, and wood chips.

 Nitrogen materials are fresh or green, such as grass clippings and kitchen scraps.

Food scraps are the most common item that one thinks of when collecting compost. 

Fruit and/or vegetable peelings will break down and eventually give you nutrient rich soil for your garden.

Almost all forms of clean, non-treated paper can be composted. The dry material will help balance the ratio of green. 

 

Turning your compost once a month will help speed up the process by getting air into it, which will slowly heat up to help break things down 

and a cover for really wet day will help your compost from becoming too waterlogged.

 

 

A List of some compostable materials that can be used:

 

Greens: Nitrogen-rich materials,

Used coffee ground

 Kitchen vegetable scraps, Fruit and vegetable peels

Citrus rinds, Melon rinds, Egg shells

Tea leaves/tea bags

Houseplant trimmings

Weeds that haven't gone to seed

Grass clippings, Fresh leaves

Deadheads from flowers

Dead plants (as long as they aren't diseased)

Seaweed, Stale bread

Cuttings from the vegetable garden

 

 

Browns: Carbon-rich materials,

Wood chipping, Straw

 Dried leaves, Dried grass

Shredded paper, and cardboard, 

Bedding from hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits

Chopped up twigs and small branches

Pine cones, Fallen bird's nests

Paper coffee filters (used)

Pressed paper egg cartons, torn into small pieces

Sawdust (only from untreated wood)

Brown paper shredded/torn

Leftover peat 

Bedding from chickens

 

 

Don't use:

Dairy, meat or any fatty products

dog and cat waste.