Garden Smarts: Composting Materials Chart

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Carbon/Nitrogen Ratio of Common Compost Materials

Material C/N Ratio

Grass Clippings 20 to 1

Weeds (green) 19 to 1

Leaves 60 to 1

Paper 180 to 1

Kitchen Scraps 15 to 1

Sawdust 450 to 1

Hen Manure (no litter) 7 to 1

Hen Manure (w/litter) 10 to 1

Straw 100 to 1

Seaweed 25 to 1

Pines Needles 70 to 1

Corn Stalks 60 to 1

Alfalfa Hay 13 to 1

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This is a series of pictures taken mostly in 1999 and 2000 during trips to visit the seed breeders, producers and testers who provided the seed for my catalog, The Cook's Garden, which I founded in 1983 and left in 2003 after twenty years. Many of these locations are not open to the general public and so I have done my best to give you some background on each of them to put them in context.

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