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Compost Making, balancing green & brown or nitrogen & carbon

By letter2self on June 6, 2023



Make better compost when you understand how to balance the ingredients of your heap. Have fun trying different combinations, with more success once you know the qualities of each material.
Summer sees plenty of green matter and I show the ways to balance this with brown additions to your heap. ‘Green and brown’ are simpler ways to understand the best balance of nitrogen to carbon.
Success also comes from keeping air in a heap, helped by structure from woody additions. And from finding more materials to add, including some you thought you could not.
See also my two earlier videos on making compost:

My first compost making video is in late winter, about starting a new heap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6CGj7xpFE

The second video is in autumn, I explain successions of heaps, from currently being created to mature and ready https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeBUX9iEFwg

In my online course 1, I explain and show about best ways to use compost as well as to make it https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/online-course-1-no-dig-gardening/
We sell a package of two online courses at reduced price https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/online-courses-1-and-2/
And module 5 sold separately for just £25, has lessons all about making and using compost https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product/online-course-1-no-dig-gardening-module-5/

Find more advice about making compost on my website page https://charlesdowding.co.uk/advice-on-making-compost/.
See also the videos and posts of my Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/charles_dowding/

I have no commercial interest in any products shown here.

This video filmed at Homeacres UK on 11th June 2020 by Edward Dowding, then edited by him. He spends a lot of time editing, to make the explanations clearer and your experience more enjoyable. We hope you enjoy the result.

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