If it isn't bad enough that town councils won't accept sprout peelings
because they "may have shared a kitchen with a ham sandwich "....

If it ever lived it can and should be composted !
Including _me_ if i can arrange it :-)

To me it's a bit like all those people who reckon that Internet Explorer
installed a virus or spyware all by itself and you really should use this or
that alternative clunky software ....

..

gentlegreen wrote:
If it isn't bad enough that town councils won't accept sprout
peelings
because they "may have shared a kitchen with a ham sandwich "....

If it ever lived it can and should be composted !
Including _me_ if i can arrange it :-)

To me it's a bit like all those people who reckon that Internet
Explorer installed a virus or spyware all by itself and you really
should use this or that alternative clunky software ....

Sorry, I missed the programme. What did he actually say?

--
Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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gentlegreen wrote:
If it isn't bad enough that town councils won't accept sprout
peelings
because they "may have shared a kitchen with a ham sandwich "....

If it ever lived it can and should be composted !
Including _me_ if i can arrange it :-)

To me it's a bit like all those people who reckon that Internet
Explorer installed a virus or spyware all by itself and you really
should use this or that alternative clunky software ....

Sorry, I missed the programme. What did he actually say?

--

Oh the usual thing - "cooked scraps attract vermin" (shock horror) ....

Maybe it's because I live in the city - aware that I share the planet with
rats ... even had one sneak in through rotten woodwork a few years back -
now fixed. It ended up in my compost bin once I'd lured it to a trap with
cooked squid and finished it off with a hammer - went in whole - no sign of
it a year later.

The rats round my way are spoilt by a plethora of excellent takeaways - my
furry squatter only ever visited me for shelter - it used to nip out for
dinner

I'm not an extremist - I have no plans (or the room) for a composting
toilet, but I come out in a rash at the thought of putting anything organic
in the dustbin.
My plastic, council-subsidised plastic composter is next to the wheelie bin
out by the front gate - it gets everything from kitchen roll to fish guts
which depending on conditions are processed by worms, fungi, bacteria and
who knows what else ....

There's no evidence of anything mammalian sneaking in.

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gentlegreen wrote:
If it isn't bad enough that town councils won't accept sprout
peelings
because they "may have shared a kitchen with a ham sandwich "....

(snip)

Sorry, I missed the programme. What did he actually say?

Oh the usual thing - "cooked scraps attract vermin" (shock horror) ....
Maybe it's because I live in the city - aware that I share the planet with
rats ... even had one sneak in through rotten woodwork a few years back -
now fixed. It ended up in my compost bin once I'd lured it to a trap with
cooked squid and finished it off with a hammer - went in whole - no sign of
it a year later.

Yurk! That's amazing. I've burried our hamster 19 months ago and by
accident we dug it up to find hair and bones still pretty much there!
Weird rat your rat! Sure it was a rat? ...

But what monty said was not to put any meat in the compost and that's
very much something zillions of other gardeners do. And so do I. It's
simply not a good idea. Cooked veg can go in there too.

"La puce" wrote in message
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gentlegreen wrote:
If it isn't bad enough that town councils won't accept sprout
peelings
because they "may have shared a kitchen with a ham sandwich "....

(snip)

Sorry, I missed the programme. What did he actually say?

Oh the usual thing - "cooked scraps attract vermin" (shock horror) ....
Maybe it's because I live in the city - aware that I share the planet
with
rats ... even had one sneak in through rotten woodwork a few years back -
now fixed. It ended up in my compost bin once I'd lured it to a trap with
cooked squid and finished it off with a hammer - went in whole - no sign
of
it a year later.

Yurk! That's amazing. I've burried our hamster 19 months ago and by
accident we dug it up to find hair and bones still pretty much there!
Weird rat your rat! Sure it was a rat? ...

But what monty said was not to put any meat in the compost and that's
very much something zillions of other gardeners do. And so do I. It's
simply not a good idea. Cooked veg can go in there too.

Yep - definitely a rat - had to bash his brains out with a hammer - but as I
say it went into my red hot compost bin so was quickly dealt with by mother
nature.

As to the meat thing, I was vegan for 20 years but the past 2 I've been
experimenting with fish and I always make a point of gutting them myselves
so I can add them to my compost. Since I have a security camera and PIR lamp
I would know if there was any live rat activity.

Zillions of gardeners CAN be wrong ;-)

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache...++meat&hl=e n

"gentlegreen" wrote
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Zillions of gardeners CAN be wrong ;-)


We are always told to put on loads of stuff at the same time to raise the
temperature of the compost heap...... but how do you do that when you only have
a very small garden with not much waste, and there's only two of you, so not
much veggie waste either?

Jenny

gentlegreen wrote:
Yep - definitely a rat - had to bash his brains out with a hammer - but as I
say it went into my red hot compost bin so was quickly dealt with by mother
nature.

faint

As to the meat thing, I was vegan for 20 years but the past 2 I've been
experimenting with fish and I always make a point of gutting them myselves
so I can add them to my compost. Since I have a security camera and PIR lamp
I would know if there was any live rat activity.

Ha! Fish yes! And blood and bones are good too - it's just the idea of
everyone putting the rest of their sunday roast on the compost bin.
Somehow it sounds really wrong. Just imagine those zillions of
gardeners with huge piles of meat rotting away. Honestly ...

Zillions of gardeners CAN be wrong ;-)

It's a life time learning process. I've heard )

Excellent link btw. I never bother touching my compost. I just ask my
boys to pee in it when they have a moment.