Photo by Carlo Mendoza
Compost Burrito
This quick and easy creation is the perfect way to layer nitrogen and carbon in your compost
My compost often suffered the muckiness of “failure to layer”—too much wet stuff such as kitchen scraps and grass clippings (high in nitrogen) and too little dry stuff like fallen leaves (high in carbon). Then one day when I was making borscht, my compost bucket was full, so I grabbed an old newspaper. As I scooped the veggie peelings onto the sports section—Eureka!—the “compost burrito” was born, a quick way to layer nitrogen and carbon on the spot.
**Three easy steps:**
1. Gather your fruit or veggie trimmings.
2. Scatter them evenly over a doubled sheet of newspaper and fold the edges in.
3. Roll it up burrito-style and place it into your compost bucket or composter.
Douglas Justice, Associate Director and Curator of Collections at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden, approves. “The typical household has a constant supply of wet organics and limited access to dry organics,” he says, “especially in winter. With vegetable-based inks, newspaper makes an ideal, non-toxic compost
addition.” And the worms appreciate the reading material!
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