Sounds like a good plan, I started my second compost pile, right now it is all leaves about 8 bags and UCGs about 8 bags of those as well.

If this material is applied to your garden as a mulch there is no need to put any extra Nitrogen down. You could toss in some coffee grounds just as some extra organic matter, not necessarily for the Nitrogen.

what about adding urine?

or also using some spoilt hay mulches? ie.,. spoilt lucern hay, or pasture grass hay, then there's pea straw, we have raked and used slashed grass from open parklands or people fields. not sure but how much nitrogen is in kitchen scraps? we add ours daily under the mulch to feed the garden. not a great suer of grass clippings (better left on the lawn) but maybe you could mix some of this into the straw?

len

Here is a link that might be useful: len's garden page