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Re: [Hot Compost!] // Manures and other questions

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Cyn, my understanding is that when the grass turns brown and drys it has
lost all or most of its nitrogen therefore making it a carbon.  The only
example I can think of is hay.  While growing it is green and I am sure very
high in nitrogen.  After it is cut, and before it is baled, it is left on
the ground to dry for some time, then baled.  Hay is generally used as a
brown in composting.  

To confuse the issue a little, coffee grounds (brown in color of course) are
green in the composting world.
Tammy


On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:07:18 EST, Square Foot Gardening List wrote:

>  Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>  
>  In a message dated 1/5/2000 5:57:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
>  Tammyg456@excite.com writes:
>  
>  >  In the summer if you are
>  >  desperate for browns, leave your grass clippings on the lawn for a
week or
>  >  until the next mowing.  They will turn into browns and with the new
cutting
>  >  you are getting your greens in an almost perfect mix.
>  Really?   I thought that green and brown were shorthands for heavy C and
N 
>  providers and "once an N, always an N."  How does drying change that?
>  Cyn
>  
>  
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