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Support Jardin Potager Biodiversité on Tipeee: https://fr.tipeee.com/jardin-potager-... #gardening #compost #zerodechet The blog article https://jardin-potager-bio.fr/petit-c.... How to start a compost from your food waste and what you find in your garden or vegetable patch. What to put in the compost? What should be avoided? I also explain the dosages to balance the compost in nitrogen and carbon. Where to install your composter and how to use your compost as a natural fertilizer for the vegetable garden. Principle of compost Recycle plant waste to transform it into natural fertilizer. Place material directly in contact with the soil to let the worms pass. Natural decomposition of organic matter by micro-organisms What can be put in the compost To start a compost you can put food waste (preferably organic!), vegetable peelings, fruit peelings, leftover plates, nettles, tree prunings, shredded material, coffee grounds What to avoid putting in the compost Newspapers because of the ink, onions, plastic, cardboard because of the glue, food with pesticides, leftover meat because of pests How to balance your compost 1/3 nitrogen for 2/3 carbon. Keep dead leaves or shuttering to alternate layers. Add water. Aerate / mix. Nettle manure or chicken litter to speed up the compost. Where to install your composter? Part sun, part shade. Near the house but not too much. Near a water point. Directly on the ground. How to use your compost Wait until it is finished (about 6 months). Use it for seedlings, sieved and mixed with topsoil or molehill soil. In potting soil for vegetable plants or at the foot of young fruit trees. In planters.