Iam doing my best to compost, but the materials I have available are oak and maple leaves during the fall and spring and plenty of grass clippings and weeds during the summer. My compost pile doesn’t do much of anything during the cool season and gets sour during the summer. How can I balance it out? Is it a good idea to put weeds in the compost pile? Will

We don’t always get the proper balance of materials available for composting during the year, but you should be able to do better than you are. Fallen leaves may fail to compost rapidly because they are too low in nitrogen for the microorganisms that carry out the decay process to digest them properly. Sprinkle a little nitrogen-containing fertilizer (any commercial granular fertilizer, cotton seed meal or blood meal) over the leaves ev

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