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You are here: Home / Gardening / What Can I Compost?

What Can I Compost?

June 14, 2007

Laura and I have decided that it would be a good idea to cut down even more on our garbage output. We thought that composting would be a great thing to do…and it is.

I started looking up different things online about composting, such as various composters, what I can compost and different composting blogs. The “How to Make Compost” link has a great table down towards the middle of the page that includes what to and what not to compost.

So far, we are just separating our garbage. Right now, we actually have more garbage to recycle than regular trash, so that’s good. The only thing is that we won’t really have much to compost and that’s a little disappointing. Oh well…

I thought that I might offer a few links about composting and gardening as a whole…I just took the list from the blog I mentioned above. I am fairly sure that the site owners won’t mind a few extra links to them.

Clean Air Gardening
Compost Guide Home
Composter Store
Practical Environmentalist
Dirt: Amy Stewart organic gardening blog
Compost Bin Blog
Onion Gardening
Garden Plant Care
Garden Tool Guide
Texas Gardening Tips
Urban Farmer
Veggie Gardening Tips
Calendula & Concrete
North Country Maturing Gardener
skippy’s vegetable garden
The Inadvertent Gardener
In My Kitchen Garden
Can You Dig It
Vegetables for Breakfast
Outdoor Furniture Guide
Clean Air Gardening blog
Italian Cooking Supply blog

I want to get one of those really cool tumbler type composters in the future, but I think it would be a good idea to wait until we actually have something to put in it. I don’t bag or rake up our grass clippings, because that would be taking all the Nitrogen right off the lawn…the very thing I want to keep in there.

If I pick up a composter in the future, you can count on some nice photos right here.

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Comments

  1. Genie says

    January 6, 2017 at 1:39 pm

    I’m not sure waiting until you have enough to compost makes a lot of sense … after all, where will you store it beyond a compost bin!? I have a fence surrounding one pile and a compost bin surrounding the rest of my stuff, but really…it’s no big deal. A tumbler is not necessary…

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  2. Paul says

    January 6, 2017 at 1:40 pm

    You can compost anything that will decompose. Coffee grounds, tea bags, vegetable scraps, egg shells, orange peels, wood shavings and chips, lawn waist, leaves, etc. This is a great way to reduce the waist stream, and make some good stuff for the garden. I have a compost pile which I dug into this spring and used in the vegetable garden.

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  3. Glenn says

    January 6, 2017 at 1:40 pm

    If your city grinds up Christmas trees, they usually give that away. I ‘ve done that in the past, but wasn’t able to get over there this year. In addition to what Paul lists, I also throw shredded paper (black & white only) from my paper shredder.

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