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Rotting Banana mixed into soil
On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:46:58 -0400, Dan Espen
wrote: Boron Elgar writes: On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:41:43 -0700 (PDT), Hypatia Nachshon wrote: On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 10:35:42 AM UTC-7, Boron Elgar wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:27:17 -0700 (PDT), Hypatia Nachshon wrote: On Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 4:10:31 PM UTC-7, azigni wrote: On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:38:02 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote: Bananas do not compost well, mostly they rot/ferment and stink... over ripe bananas are good for baking (banana bread/muffins), over ripe bananas can be frozen for delicious snacks... also bananas make great dildos. Thanks, I was thinking of the potassium in bananas, but never heard of anyone mixing them right into the soil. The meal ideas sound great too! I don't add them to my compost pile as I thought the peels were full of insecticide, etc? However it is OK to put them into MUNICIPAL compost. Our city encourages food waste to be deposited in yard waste cans. They responded to my inquiry about meat and fat -- usually a no-no in home compost -- by pointing out that the yard waste cum compost is treated at such a high temperature that it can handle no-nos. Pesticides? I'd like to se verification of that. Never heard of it. The result, BTW, is rich compost that is free to residents on a quarterly basis. People line up in their cars & trucks and load all kind of containers with this fab compost. I am unabashedly sentimental about this community event!! I have always hesitated to use community composts, as many homeowners allow their grass clippings to be collected and the insecticide, weed killers and broad herbicides that they use wind up in there. We do not eat hat many bananas and the skins to not contain enough pesticides to prevent me from chucking them in my own compost, however. These comments about "polluted" municipal compost are indeed food for thought and I will ask the City about the issue. But I wonder whether treating yard waste at the high temperatures they say wouldn't be enough to "kill" or neutralize the bad things cited on this thread. You need a certain sustaining of temp to encourage decomposition but not so hot that you kill off the good microorganisms, but I have never seen anything that says composting destroys garden chems. I am happy to read any articles about it, though. Lots of info here. http://compost.css.cornell.edu/physics.html In general, allowed chemicals do not remain toxic for long times in the environment. That's how DDT got banned. Composting is done relatively quickly, and believe me, no one knows what kind of stuff folks put into their "green" pickups. But it's trendy now to fear everything. OMG, that stuff contains CHEMICALS. Run and hide. I have never claimed such. Face it, put 9 billion people on the planet, and pretty soon we're all taking in each others waste products. No way around it. We all have a big of the Big Bang in us already. Composting breaks lots of stuff down, the bacteria have a field day. That is how it works. Here are meal worms breaking down styrofoam: http://tinyurl.com/qz3jdqx Then, if you are growing edibles, the plants themselves are selective about the compounds they take out of the soil. But that is no reason to be indiscriminate in what one adds to the soil. Personally, I think a lot of people are fooling themselves, thinking they can eat their way to health. You need to stay active. Any crap you eat, a healthy body can process. Depends. Kids and women of child-bearing age do need to take a bit more care about certain compounds/elements, but there is a sucker born every minute, and the Dr. Oz's of this world like to take advantage of it. |
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