Tools and Materials Compost container Brown plant materials, such as leaves and straw Green materials, such as grass clippings, kitchen waste, and manure High-nitrogen amendments, such as blood meal and cottonseed meal Garden soil Water source Garden fork Tips Place open bottom compost containers on a sheet of galvanized wire hardware cloth to prevent rodents from burrowing into the pile.
(Tips Place open bottom; compost; containers; L:on a sheet of galvanized wire hardware cloth) (rodents; from burrowing; into the pile)
Tips Place open bottom rodents
compost from burrowing
containers L:on a sheet of galvanized wire hardware cloth
into the pile