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- 01 Garden and yard residues: what to compost, what to burn, what to bin Eighteen materials from the garden, including the four that should never go in a compost pile at all — not because they will not break down, but because they will break…
- 02 Kitchen and home waste: what goes in, what stays out Nineteen items from the average kitchen, sorted by whether they belong in a compost pile, a worm tray, a bokashi bucket, or none of the three.
- 03 Nitrogen greens: the materials that start the pile and cause the smells Every smell problem in this log came from the green side. Greens run from 4:1 to 24:1, they are 60-85 % water, and the strongest of them will clear a garden within a…
- 04 Working out C:N and moisture before the pile is built Every smell problem in this log traces back to a ratio that was wrong before the material went in. The arithmetic takes ten minutes, needs nothing but a scale, and…
- 05 Carbon browns: the twelve materials worth knowing by number Cardboard is not leaves is not sawdust. The C:N spread across common browns runs from 45 to 500, and the moisture spread from 5 % to 40 % — picking the wrong brown is…
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