Printable Compost List

Turn your compost pile every 2 or 3 days to let air circulate and speed up the decomposition of organic materials.

Printable compost list. It contains little or no green materials. 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. Dryer and vacuum cleaner lint. From the kitchen fruit and vegetable scraps g.

Egg shells crushed b. Built a little at a time or all at once but little turning is needed. Great source of nitrogen. A smaller compost heap is easier to manage neater and will decompose much more quickly than a larger pile.

And these items are guaranteed to smell bad and attract flies rodents and other unwanted pests. Tea bags make sure they are made of natural materials like hemp or cotton. Leaves trees and bushes yes. Can make the pile too alkaline and suppress composting.

Always put a layer of brown materials leaves hay straw on the top to control odors. Animal manure from herbivores not meat eaters like dogs or cats. Spoiled soy rice almond coconut milk g. 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.

Ashes from untreated unpainted wood. Click here to get the download. Cotton and wool rags. Bury within compost pile.

T f 9. I ve compiled the important highlights from all the start apartment composting articles into a one page chart. T f 8. A cool pile is.

Coffee grounds and filters. May contain materials bad for plants. The best compost is a mixture of red and brown materials. Get the free guide and composting checklist here.

Used paper napkins and paper towels. A cool compost pile remains cool because. Print it out in grayscale for the color ink cartridge conscious. 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.

Great source of nitrogen. I share all of this with you in this printable guide and checklist. T f 10. Cardboard rolls cereal boxes brown paper bags.

Bury in compost pile. All forms of kitchen waste can be composted but you might want to skip composting meat dairy and fats. These items will eventually break down but take much longer. Crushed eggshells but not eggs.

Cool composting is the laid back way to recycle your yard materials. 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. Enter my composting guide a free printable how to. Loose leaf tea g.