Selecting Compost Materials

• Bad Choices

  • Pig and pet manures
  • Meat scraps
  • Fats or oils
  • Diseased plants
  • Noxious & perennial weeds
  • Recently fungicide-treated plants (within a month)

• Good Choices

  • Grass clippings
  • Leaves
  • Farm manure
  • Yard clippings
  • Vegetable scraps
  • Sod, Hay
  • Non-noxious weeds
  • Sawdust
  • Garden residue

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