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You can continue to add material to your compost unit all winter long. The key is to turn or tumble the unit to mix things up and to incorporate fresh air. Do this once a week and the material inside the unit will generate heat as it decomposes. There's no reliable recipe for what to add to a composter. You need both green (nitrogen) and brown (carbon) materials in order to promote fast decomposition. You can also add a shoveful of garden soil to the compost to help kick-start the decomposition process. Garden soil contains all kinds of beneficial microbes to help your compost. Your green materials include veggie and fruit scraps, garden prunings, even some grass clippings. Brown materials include egg shells, dried leaves, straw, newspaper, cardboard, etc. A reasonably balanced mixture of carbon and nitrogen materials will produce a reasonably good compost. |
