using garden plants as compost

Can you use garden waste as compost material, such as squash plants, tomatoes, corn stalks, cucumber, butternut squash, pine needles from trees, etc. ?

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#1 Comment By Cathy On 07/21/2011 @ 8:28 am

Of course you can, just don’t use disease plants or cuttings in your compost. Since those are mostly “green” you do want to balance them out with some “brown” as well. This article should be of help:

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