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Composting Tips: 2:1 Recipe Guide

The optimal compost recipe uses 2 parts brown materials high in carbon to 1 part green materials high in nitrogen. Browns include cardboard, straw, and sawdust while greens include fruits, vegetables, and grass clippings. Brown paper placed on top of compost bins helps control fruit flies. Composting can be either cool or hot, with cool composting taking 6 months to a year and involving small regular additions while hot composting uses a large volume turned regularly to heat up and finish within months. Compost is ready when a sealed handful no longer smells after a few days.

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Composting Tips: 2:1 Recipe Guide

The optimal compost recipe uses 2 parts brown materials high in carbon to 1 part green materials high in nitrogen. Browns include cardboard, straw, and sawdust while greens include fruits, vegetables, and grass clippings. Brown paper placed on top of compost bins helps control fruit flies. Composting can be either cool or hot, with cool composting taking 6 months to a year and involving small regular additions while hot composting uses a large volume turned regularly to heat up and finish within months. Compost is ready when a sealed handful no longer smells after a few days.

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Composting with WEN

The magic 2:1 recipe and other technical tips

The magic recipe: 2/3 browns and 1/3 greens + air + moisture
Browns

Greens

(materials high in carbon)

(materials high in nitrogen)

Tea bags / coffee grounds

Raw fruit and vegetables

Cardboard packaging

Grass cuttings

Straw

Weeds

Sawdust / woodchips

Dead plants

Dust and vacuum bags

(Leaves should be composted separately as


they will slow down the process)

Brown paper

Fruit Flies
Brown paper is especially effective in keeping down fruit flies. Wet it and place it on top of the
indoor buckets or outdoor bins.
Hot and cool composting explained
Cool compost takes place when you add small quantities of compost ingredients at a time and
the bin does not heat up. This type of composting is most common and can take up to a year to
mature.
Hot heaps can only be created by having large quantities (minimum 1cubic metre) of
compostable materials at one time. This causes the compost to rapidly heat up. Heaps or bins
are then turned to redistribute heat and micro-organisms, and may well heat up again. The
compost can take just a few months to mature.
When is it ready?
Cool composting will take anywhere between six months to a year.
To test and see if compost is ready, put a handful in a plastic bag and seal. After a few days,
open the bag and if it does not smell, then its ready!
Sieving finished compost will make it look very professional! Any bits or unfinished compost can
be put back into the outdoor bin.

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