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Might also work as a windowlene substitute.

Nah! Sticky windows and a wasp and ant magnet.

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I've always thought life was too short for slug traps...
As to wasp traps, I just don't agree with trapping wasps.
Either would be intolerable cruelty to animals - this is really,
really appalling painstripper.


Might also work as a windowlene substitute.

Gasp.

As well you might!


I don't think it would be fairly neutral in terms of its effect on the
compost.


So... you think it would be good or bad?

*I* think it would be bad - in any quantity anyway, unless, as I
mentioned earlier, you passed it through your kidneys first, in which
case it would make an admirable accelerator.

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I've always thought life was too short for slug traps...
As to wasp traps, I just don't agree with trapping wasps.
Either would be intolerable cruelty to animals - this is really,
really appalling painstripper.

Might also work as a windowlene substitute.
Gasp.

As well you might!



I don't think it would be fairly neutral in terms of its effect on the
compost.

So... you think it would be good or bad?

*I* think it would be bad - in any quantity anyway, unless, as I
mentioned earlier, you passed it through your kidneys first, in which
case it would make an admirable accelerator.

Tell you what. You can have five bottles of my best plo... errr...
white wine, and you're more than welcome to come and accelerate my
compost :-)

Cat(h)

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"Cat(h)" writes:
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| I have a few bottles of really, really bad wine in the house, gifts
| from the uninformed, and nasty prizes from pub quizzes.
| Then, suddenly, I
| thought: "what about pouring it onto the compost heap?"
| Is there any reason why I shouldn't?

No. There are plenty of bacteria that will break it down.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

There's algae that live on alcohol fumes. It turns the outside of distillery
buildings black.

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Tell you what. You can have five bottles of my best plo... errr...
white wine, and you're more than welcome to come and accelerate my
compost :-)

Where?

However, it requires treatment before it gets to the kidneys - I dislike
nearly all white wines. Treated with ginned (or white-rummed) sloes, it
becomes passable.¹

¹ After processing by the kidneys, of course!

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In article ,
"Duncan" writes:
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| There's algae that live on alcohol fumes. It turns the outside of distillery
| buildings black.

Hic.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Rusty Hinge 2 writes:
| The message
|
| from "Cat(h)" contains these words:
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| Tell you what. You can have five bottles of my best plo... errr...
| white wine, and you're more than welcome to come and accelerate my
| compost :-)
|
| Where?
|
| However, it requires treatment before it gets to the kidneys - I dislike
| nearly all white wines. Treated with ginned (or white-rummed) sloes, it
| becomes passable.¹
|
| ¹ After processing by the kidneys, of course!

You consume it after the kidney treatment? As with the reported way
that some people use Amanita muscaria?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:58:49 -0700 (PDT), "Cat(h)"
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Ok, this is going to sound totally off the wall, but the question is
genuine.
I have a few bottles of really, really bad wine in the house, gifts
from the uninformed, and nasty prizes from pub quizzes.
Anyhoo. I can recycle the bottles, but I hate to just pour the wine
down the drain if there is any other use I can put it to. It is truly
too awful to cook with - take my word for it. Then, suddenly, I
thought: "what about pouring it onto the compost heap?"
Is there any reason why I shouldn't? More to the point, would it have
any benefit in terms of accelerating the composting process? Are
slightly sozzled earth worms and other creepy crawlies more efficient
breaker downers of organic material?
Enquiring minds want to know...
:-)
TIA
Cat(h)


You should freecycle it.
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:58:49 -0700 (PDT), "Cat(h)"
wrote:

Ok, this is going to sound totally off the wall, but the question is
genuine.
I have a few bottles of really, really bad wine in the house, gifts
from the uninformed, and nasty prizes from pub quizzes.
Anyhoo. I can recycle the bottles, but I hate to just pour the wine
down the drain if there is any other use I can put it to. It is truly
too awful to cook with - take my word for it. Then, suddenly, I
thought: "what about pouring it onto the compost heap?"
Is there any reason why I shouldn't? More to the point, would it have
any benefit in terms of accelerating the composting process? Are
slightly sozzled earth worms and other creepy crawlies more efficient
breaker downers of organic material?
Enquiring minds want to know...
:-)
TIA
Cat(h)


You should freecycle it.

Or distil it!!! Try pouring a bottle into a dish and freezing it. The
unfrozen alcohol may make good sloe gin or the like. I used to make home
wine and several undrinkable concoctions were turned into useful alcohol
that way.

Mike

Make vinegar out of it by exposing it to the air.

Jonathan

Jonathan wrote:
Make vinegar out of it by exposing it to the air.

Jonathan

Cat(H) you must have very educated taste buds, I've yet to find a wine I
can't drink! ;-)

On Sep 11, 4:17*pm, Broadback wrote:
Jonathan wrote:
Make vinegar out of it by exposing it to the air.

Jonathan

Cat(H) you must have very educated taste buds, I've yet to find a wine I
can't drink! ;-)

Maybe so. Be my guest if you wish to collect ;-)
Seriously, though. You can't cook with bad wine, you can't present it
to friends or risk losing them, you can't give it to your enemy or
risk making him/her a far deadlier one, I don't subscribe to home brew
- probably because any I have ever had to be polite enough to sample
was absolutely goddawful, and because where I come from, wine is made
with grapes by people who know their business (i.e., not me, nor, from
my experience, too many homebrewers). My expertise is in the
drinking.
At this stage, it seems my pouring it over the compost heap will be of
limited value to the said heap - though probably not detrimental
either. So, it's a toss up whether I'll do that, or whether I'll
simply let it down the drain - which was what I was hoping not to
do.
The determining factor will be just how much rain is pouring this week
end when I go about clearing up the kitchen, and just how soggy the
lawn...

Cat(h)

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| The message
|
| from "Cat(h)" contains these words:
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| Tell you what. You can have five bottles of my best plo... errr...
| white wine, and you're more than welcome to come and accelerate my
| compost :-)
|
| Where?
|
| However, it requires treatment before it gets to the kidneys - I dislike
| nearly all white wines. Treated with ginned (or white-rummed) sloes, it
| becomes passable.¹
|
| ¹ After processing by the kidneys, of course!

You consume it after the kidney treatment? As with the reported way
that some people use Amanita muscaria?

Now did I say that?

Please re-read...

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You should freecycle it.

Or distil it!!!

Risking a fine od megapounds, andor imprisonment?

Try pouring a bottle into a dish and freezing it. The
unfrozen alcohol may make good sloe gin or the like. I used to make home
wine and several undrinkable concoctions were turned into useful alcohol
that way.

That too is illegal, and in any case, you need to start from very
weakly-flavoured liquor such as cider, as most of the flavour that's
there comes out with the concentrated liquor, and if the original is
undrinkable, the result of 'applejacking' it to a stronger one will be
correspondingly worse.

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Make vinegar out of it by exposing it to the air.

if it's no good for drinking, then I wouldn't want to use it when
fermented to vinegar.

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