| Material |
Carbon |
Nitrogen |
| Blood, dried |
0 |
4 |
| Bone meal |
1 |
4 |
| Cabbage/lettuce leaves |
2 |
2 |
| Coir fibre |
1 |
1 |
| Comfrey |
9.8 |
1 |
| Kitchen scraps, raw |
2 |
2 |
| Hops, spent |
0 |
2 |
| Lawn mowings |
2 |
2 |
| Leaves |
3 |
1 |
| Manure, pig, with straw |
1 |
3 |
| Manure, poultry |
0 |
3 |
| Manure, stable with straw |
1 |
3 |
| Nettles, fresh |
1 |
4 |
| Newspaper, shredded |
2 |
0 |
| Pea and bean vines |
1 |
3 |
| Peat |
1 |
1 |
| Plant debris |
2 |
2 |
| Potato haulms |
2 |
2 |
| Prunings, shredded |
3 |
1 |
| Seaweed, fresh |
2 |
2 |
| Straw |
3 |
1 |
| Tomato haulms |
2 |
2 |
| Urine |
0 |
4 |
| Weeds, annual |
2 |
2 |
| Wheat straw |
3 |
1 |
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Crushed egg shells, feathers, bracken, tea leaves, bonfire ash and pet hair can all be added in small doses.
The following items should not be composted: leftovers containing meat or fish, large quantities of sawdust or wood shavings, evergreen prunings, manmade fibres, vacuum bag contents unless all your carpets are wool.
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