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I had a leaflet which said no potato peelings, gawd knows why, because I’ve had no trouble with them.

Definately a bad item is wood pellet cat litter, it is just [url=http://pellets-wood.com]compressed saw dust[/url], so it should compost very well, but if you put too much in it becomes very compacted and will just sit there doing nothing for years, I suppose in small quantities it will not be a problem.

Cooked vegetables, they always say not to use this, I can’t see why not, it’s organic, biodegradeable, will rot down in no time, I would have no qualms putting it in my bin. but then I eat all the veg I cook anyway!

I put dead mice and birds in that the cat brings home too. I will put anything in my compost if it is left over food, I don’t subscribe to this idea of no meat, no fish no bread etc. If it’s organic and its left over it goes in the compost bin.

In reality though I hardly ever have anything left over, but some items (just to give you an idea of what I do put in) would be yoghurt, bread, mozarella cheese, pasta, cooked fish.

fallen leaves are good.

In my experience turning a compost heap is too much like hard work, so mine just sits there, I have two compost bins and work on the principle that if one ever becomes full I can start the other one. I am yet to get some satisfactory compost though, I am close to it in one bin, I just emptied all the saw dust from bin 2 and spread it on the garden as a mulch, then transferred the semi compost from bin 1 to bin 2 (gining it some air in the process) so I have bin 1 empty, and bin 2 3/4 full but still not good enough, I’ll leave it till next year.

thanks for all the forth coming advice and comments.!