What can you put into your home compost bin?

               Yes                                   

                              No

• Vegetable peelings
• Fruit Scraps
• Tea Bags/ Leaves and Coffee Grounds
• Grass Cuttings
• Finely Chopped or Shredded Shrub Prunings
• Most Garden Weeds
• Straw and Hay

• Cooked Vegetables/ Bread/ Meat Scraps/ Bones/Egg Shells
• Materials Infected with Persistent Diseases e.g Club Root Pernicious Weeds e.g Bind Weed/ Weeds with Seed Heads
• Large Unchopped Woody Branches
• Cat or Dog Litter

   Problem       

Cause        

  Solution          

Nasty Smells!

Compost too wet

Too many grass cuttings

Leave lid off in dry weather

Remove some grass cuttings

Slow decay

Not enough heat

Too dry - needs activator Lack of air

Position in sunlight, keep lid on

Moisten and mix in soft material

Poor mix so fork through / add new material into the loose layers

Vermin

Meats and fats have been added

Remove unsuitable material