What's up everyone? Hey, so Kevin here again from Epic Gardening. I wanted to say I'm sorry because

I've been putting podcast episodes out a little bit late these days, but there's a very good

reason for that. and that reason is

August 15th today is the final day that I had to submit the manuscript for the

epic gardening book which is called the Field Guide to Urban

Gardening. So can you imagine my relief when I actually hit that send button and got the book to my publisher where it's going to go through editing, photos, etc.

And the book eventually is going to come out to you guys.

I can't tell you how long of a process this has been and how much relief and excitement that I feel just to get it to that next step.

So, sorry for the podcast episodes being out a little late.

Hope you can forgive me. I've been working to get that

book out. I've kind of been living a hermit-based lifestyle, not even been doing a lot in the

garden lately, although it's been a little bit hot. So, Garden's looking a little bad, but we are back with the

podcast episode today and what we're going to talk about is hopefully clearing up a little bit of a composting misunderstanding or

misconception. So we know when we're talking about compost piles you need your

browns and your greens. Your browns being objects of organic matter that have a lot of carbon in them and your

greens being things that have a decent amount of nitrogen in them.

Now there's two separate ways in which I think this is not the most helpful way

to think about composting and I'm going to explain them right now.

First of all, brown things aren't brown in color necessarily and green things aren't green in color necessarily.

Coffee grounds for example are considered a green.

However, obviously when you look at them they look brown. So there's one misconception

there. What you have to remember about browns and greens is it's not referring to look. It's

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