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Composting: Does green leaves that compost as brown count as 'green compost'

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  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I think green refers to organic matter, brown to inert matter, like cardboard and paper.  So brown leaves would be green.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It doesn’t really matter what goes in your bins,  as someone pointed out on another thread,  they were making compost BC,  no cardboard boxes or junk mail around then.
    Not many old country folk had cardboard either,  they just cut down and chopped up what they had.  Air and water is the main thing. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "Brown" organic matter to add is stuff like straw, hay, old wood chips, dead brown leaves.

    Worms love glue.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @tuffnelljohn If you’ve got a stable near your side of the Moor,  you can’t beat a couple of bags of muck,  that will get it hot. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    amen
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