Janet Baraclough wrote:
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My composter has arrived. It's the DEFRA subsidised one, that local
authorities have been
plugging. The helpful leaflet that came with it, advises against composting
cooked veg, but gives no reasons. I'm a bit surprised, any ideas on this
one?TIA.

Ignore it; its based on a misguided notion that only cooked veg
attract rats. Rats are just as fond of raw veg,
a cosy compostheap, and the worms that will move into it later.
You can also ignore the usual local council advice not to compost
citrus peel, onion skin and eggshells because they don't decompose. It's
nonsense.
Janet

We put all our fruit and veg waste into the compost bins. Most of the
cooked veg leftovers get "recycled" by the dogs mixed in with their
dinners. Egg shells vanish very quickly, possibly due to the compost
accelerator used ;-) Orange peel can sometimes take a while to
decompose, but does so anyway. The only things that I find problematic
to compost are whole brassica stems, especially Brussels sprout.
However, if these are coarsely chopped first using a small hand axe then
they rot fairly quickly too. We also compost all cardboard waste such as
cereal packets and paper based junk mail (except the glossy paper).

A well mixed compost bin with accelerator (pee) and this warm Summer
weather devours compost at a very fast rate. I can get away with using
only one bin and it goes down faster than things are added to it. Unlike
during Winter when I completely fill three bins and they compost much
slower.

--
David in Normandy.
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