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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott  As mentioned - you can put anything in as long as there's not one overwhelming constituent. With nettles and other flowering plants, best not to put them in as their seeds are ripening! 
I know of one case when the things going into a bin were overwhelmingly fruit remains especially orange skins - not very good compost - needed more foliage and other things ..... lovely for wasps and fruitflies but not the right texture for worms and, also, on the acid side. Cardboard and grass clippings provide a nice basis for all compost heaps. |
Only with cardboard and grass clippings you have to make sure you only put thin layers between lots of other compost material or you end up with a nasty layer of yuk in the middle of nice finished product.