Compost Chart Printable Compost List

This design is based on an evolving design for composting my grandfather came up with.

Compost chart printable compost list. Click here to get the download. I ve compiled the important highlights from all the start apartment composting articles into a one page chart. It also includes a printable can i compost this sheet to post in your kitchen. Meat fish egg or poultry scraps odor problems and pests dairy products odor problems and pests fats grease lard or oils odor problems and pests coal or charcoal ash contains substances harmful to plants diseased or insect ridden plants diseases or insects.

Garden plants flowers garden balcony gardening kitchen gardening garden loppers porch garden garden cafe gardening zones gardening hacks. Print it out in grayscale for the color ink cartridge conscious. Wood chips sawdust toothpicks burnt matches. Bury in compost pil.

Whether you live in an apartment in the city a suburban house or a big old homestead. Composting indoors or outdoors. Throughout his life he tried various strategies for composting and different bins to go with them. The checklist is an easy way to know if you ve followed best practices at a glance so you can be confident that you will have rich compost to help you grow organic produce.

The following is a chart listing common composting materials type of material use it. It includes a 4 page composting journal and a weekly composting chore chart tracker. You can do this with a pitchfork but a compost. I share all of this with you in this printable guide and checklist.

Compost bin low cost easy and modular. If you plan to compost in the city. As i was typing it out i decided to make it cute and offer it to you as a free printable in case you wanted to stick it inside a kitchen cabinet door or on your fridge. What not to compost and why.

Free printable i decided that i was going to print out a list of what to compost and put it in the kitchen so my kids would know what to add to the bin. Turn your compost pile weekly to mix and aerate it which will help everything to decompose much faster. Put slow composting things like tree branches nut shells hair latex and old rope into a separate pile at the back of your lot while keeping your faster compost pile closer to the garden. Get the free guide and composting checklist here.

Here you ll find reminders on what to do each week as well as lists of what s okay and what s a composting no no. Some used lathe and 2x4s others used cedar dimensional lumb.