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Derek wrote:

I am on an allotment facebook site, thousands of users, and this topic
is often debated
Many will say never put on your compost meat or cooked veg, now I can
see the vermin loving the meat but cooked veg? But that is trotted out
by many every time.
So putting veg in water, boiling, then adding to the compost heap
attracts rats?
Yet another urban myth, unless you can prove differntyl , I can't

It's an urban myth. Meat is a problem only if you put large amounts
of it on the heap, and have foxes (or cats) - bones etc. aren't and
burying it quite shallowly protects it from cats. Despite claims,
rats are NOT preferential carnivores and will ignore meat if there
is anything better to eat.

I have no idea where the delusion about cooked vegetables came from,
but it shows a complete lack of contact with reality.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.