What you should and should not use in your garden compost or recycle

Not everything belongs in your garden compost

Posted by Kevin Quinlan ADD COMMENTS

One of the best parts of building garden compost is to help cut down on waste and filling up the landfills. Reusing what can be reused while adding value and nutrition to your garden. However, many people don’t know what can or can not be put into their garden compost pile.

Putting certain items into your garden compost can actually cause much more harm than good, in fact, it could kill your garden out if you build your compost incorrectly. So, how do you learn what you can or can not put into your garden compost? I would start here with this post from Lighter Footstep. I thought the article was well written and had some really good information.

I think most people will find that they put bread products into their garden composts. This is probably going to be the most often guilty number but really as I look at the list I could see a lot of people trying to compost almost everything on their list. Some gardeners try to use their compost in place of their garbage completely but as you can see by this list, that is not a good idea.

The list continues to talk about what you should not recycle as well. Some interesting items in there that I would not have guessed and some more obvious but a good list for anyone who is involved with building a garden compost or recycling to get familiar with to make sure they are not causing more harm than good.