Compost naturally, during the process of decomposition will strike a balance.
Unless you have very acidic soil, this is absolutely not necessary to be
concerned about. I don't know what type oak leaves you refer to, but I use at
least 75 bags of leaves in my compost pile at any given time, since the
neighbors are so wonderfully anal about a leaf on their property and I just pick
them up and pour them onto my property!

I don't see a problem, continue to add nitrogen to carbon in a compost pile and
it will neutralize itself.

Victoria

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 23:40:50 GMT, "sputnik" wrote:

Hello,

I have a compost that is composed of approximately 75% oak leaves, which I
know to be acidic. I've read that an overly-acidic compost will "cool-down"
and break down more slowly. My question is, give that the above is true,
what can I do to bring up the pH?

Thanks

JE