Creating compost is an affordable way to developing a nutrient-rich soil structure in your yard. Compost naturally improves aeration and creates a more solid soil with an increased capacity to retain water. Making compost is as easy as throwing out the trash and helps your lawn's overall appearance. Good compost needs both carbon and nitrogen sources, and they can be found anywhere.

Items To Put In Composting Bin

Put items high in carbon and nitrogen content in your composting bin. Items high in nitrogen include freshly cut green grass and weed clippings. Use leftovers from your refrigerator like old fruits and vegetables. Banana peels are excellent source of potassium, which gives your composting bin an extra nutrient boost. Use eggshells and old breads or cereals, as they decompose and provide a great food source for beneficial microorganisms. Try using sawdust if you have it available or dried leaves to add to your compost. Fallen leaves are almost always available in any yard with a few trees. Place old hay or old green legume hay in your compost bin. Hay is an excellent source of nitrogen-rich plant material and will increase your compost's nutrient percentage. Use good carbon sources like old paper clippings. Try and use old paper products that have been recycled for a better decomposition rate. Put anything in your compost bin that has been produced naturally, such as wilted flowers or vegetation from your garden. The compost will eventually produce more carbon and nitrogen on its own, so try to balance out the carbon and nitrogen sources that you place in your composting bin by using an even amount of green and brown materials such as sawdust, paper and leaves for brown, and fresh kitchen scraps and green weeds without seed for your green nitrogen rich sources. You should turn your compost pile every time you add fresh material to it and ensure that you rotate from top to bottom. Some compost owners add biological items like bacteria or worms, however the compost if stored outdoors will produce it's own bacteria and microorganisms while worms and insects will find their way in on their own. If you are using a commercial composting bin you may need to add some worms for proper turning.

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What to put in compost bins

Guide to composting