What to Compost

Good ingredients for your compost bin

Having studied the types of compost bins available you might be wondering what can I compost ?

What to compost from the House :

• Old Flowers
• Teabags
• Cardboard – old toilet roll tubes, egg boxes, cereal boxes
• Vegetables peelings, scraps of fruit and salad leaves

What to compost from the garden :

• Grass cuttings
• Leaves
• Twigs – limit the size of these as large twigs will slow down the composting process and will take longer to compost
• Comfrey leaves – these help speed up the composting process
• Old plants and any leaves or stems you may have removed – eg. Rhubarb leaves

Ofcourse there are some things that you should avoid putting on your compost heap and we’ll provide list of these in the next couple of days.

© Daniel Carruthers