On 18/12/2018 09:48, Tim Watts wrote:
On 18/12/2018 08:45, Derek wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:15:44 +0000, Broadback
wrote:

seems the powers that be are going to bring in bins for kitchen waste I
wouldlike to avoid them.

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


Meat - no unless it's a very hot pile or bin.

I don't put cooked meat on mine nor any waste from bought onions because
I don't want to get white rot introduced to my garden. I do sometimes
put dead creatures in the compost heap - mostly the remains of pigeons
that have been fairly well stripped of good meat by a hawk or falcoln.

Cooked veg, I don't see a problem - a hot bin or pile will cook stuff
anyway.

Mine certainly does. It has been know to get to smouldering internally a
couple of times. Mostly it tops out at about 70C more than enough to
cook or denature most proteins.

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Regards,
Martin Brown