putting blended fruit on garden

[untiedknot]

I just started my first outdoor garden. My roommate has a juicing machine and is constantly juicing fruits and veggies like carrots, pineapples, oranges, apples. She has a lot of leftover chewed up matter that I was thinking would be good to spread over my garden. I am a little concerned that the mix of these will be too acidic for my garden. I'm growing green onions, spinach, okra, arugula. Any thoughts?

[Newt]

Wow, great stuff, but you are correct. You need to have the scraps break down. What you have is called 'greens' and is high in nitrogen. You need to add 'browns' that are carbon. That would be newspaper, dried leaves in fall, shredded cardboard, twigs. Got any newspaper you can tear or shred and mix in to help break it all down? You could mix it in a container and bury it in the ground and let it rot, or compost it on a composter.

Newt

[Thomas W]

... You need to add 'browns' that are carbon. That would be newspaper ...

What about the ink on the paper? Isn't that going to harm the beneficial insects and microbes?

[Newt]

That's a good question, but most inks are now soy based and don't have heavy metals. Just don't use the shiny colored pages.

I just realized you are in Denmark and I wasn't sure what type of ink would be used there, so I did a google search with:
Denmark newspaper ink made from
and found this site.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...91aa6b76cd3bdd

As environmentally concious as you folks are, I would think it would be vegetable based, as it appears to be. You might want to repeat the search with google from there.

Newt