Garden compost

The contents of the wheelbarrow or garden basket can vary greatly from plot to plot and throughout the year – both in terms of quantity and composition.

It goes without saying that a mature plot with many trees and shrubs or large cultivation areas, flower beds and garden land generates more and a different type of waste than a newly landscaped plot consisting mostly of lawn.

Two main types

Two types of garden waste can be distinguished. One type is dominated by green material such as grass cuttings and fresh weeds. For the sake of simplicity, we can call it the green type. The other, the brown type, is dominated by leaves and dry plant parts.The different types of waste provide completely different conditions for the composting process.The green garden waste, generated during the summer, is nutrient-rich and easily degradable while the brown waste, formed during the fall and spring, is nutrient-poor, often dry and more difficult to degrade.The green type has the smallest volume at the start of the growing season and grows as the crop produces material for the compost, whereas the brown type often has the largest volume after one or two weekends of raking leaves and clearing dry stems from the bed.During the coming growing season, the volume then decreases as the material breaks down.What both types of compost have in common is that they freeze in winter because a garden compost is normally uninsulated and open, and there is little or no addition of new material that can generate heat.A consequence of this is that a garden compost will in principle never produce finished compost in one year.Expect it to take at least two years.What they also have in common is that the supply of material varies more over time than is the case in, for example, a household compost, where the supply takes place once or twice a week.

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