We recently had an ammount of cooked green veg, cabbage etc
left over from a dinner party.I wanted to put it on the compost
heap, but, swmbo said that you can not compost cooked food. Who
is right? To my mind whilst the texture may have changed and a
few additives like salt included basically raw & cooked are the
same!

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

Roger Tonkin wrote:

swmbo said that you can not compost cooked food.

You can. It will likely break down faster than raw stuff.
(You actually _told_ her what you were going to do?)


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Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

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says...

Roger Tonkin wrote:

swmbo said that you can not compost cooked food.

You can. It will likely break down faster than raw stuff.
(You actually _told_ her what you were going to do?)

Now would I do such a silly thing

No I was trying to stop her putting it in the food recycling
bin.

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

On 15/12/2015 9:51 AM, Roger Tonkin wrote:

We recently had an ammount of cooked green veg, cabbage etc
left over from a dinner party.I wanted to put it on the compost
heap, but, swmbo said that you can not compost cooked food. Who
is right? To my mind whilst the texture may have changed and a
few additives like salt included basically raw & cooked are the
same!

You are. SWMBO is wrong.

On 14/12/2015 22:51, Roger Tonkin wrote:

We recently had an ammount of cooked green veg, cabbage etc
left over from a dinner party.I wanted to put it on the compost
heap, but, swmbo said that you can not compost cooked food. Who
is right? To my mind whilst the texture may have changed and a
few additives like salt included basically raw & cooked are the
same!

It is only a problem if there is fat or meat in it since you don't want
rats or foxes digging in your compost heap. Cooked vegetables are fine.

I won't put raw onion waste on mine for fear of introducing white rot or
raw brassicas for introducing club root.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 22:51:20 -0000, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

swmbo said that you can not compost cooked food.

I agree with all the other posters, you can compost cooked veg, but
please don't blame 'swmbo' as so many books/newspapers print a blanket
ban on cooked food (but then again wool blankets could be composted! )

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september.org, says...

We recently had an ammount of cooked green veg, cabbage etc
left over from a dinner party.I wanted to put it on the compost
heap, but, swmbo said that you can not compost cooked food. Who
is right? To my mind whilst the texture may have changed and a
few additives like salt included basically raw & cooked are the
same!


Thank you for all the response, I'm glad I was right!

Strangely I never compost potato peelings, my mothers advice
some 55+ years ago. She said that potatoes would grow from
them. I'm sure it is one of those old wives tales, but such
long held habits are hard to break.

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:10:08 -0000, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

Strangely I never compost potato peelings, my mothers advice
some 55+ years ago. She said that potatoes would grow from
them. I'm sure it is one of those old wives tales, but such
long held habits are hard to break.

Years ago we had a huge compost heap used for any garden or kitchen
waste. Potato peelings often resulted in some potatoes growing on the
heap. The tubas they produced were perfectly edible.

Steve

--
Neural Network Software for Windows http://www.npsnn.com

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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:10:08 -0000, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

Strangely I never compost potato peelings, my mothers advice
some 55+ years ago. She said that potatoes would grow from
them. I'm sure it is one of those old wives tales, but such
long held habits are hard to break.

Years ago we had a huge compost heap used for any garden or kitchen
waste. Potato peelings often resulted in some potatoes growing on the
heap. The tubas they produced were perfectly edible.

We rarely peel potatoes, and never peel them deeply enough to allow
the eyes to sprout successfully, which is probably why I have never
seen that :-) Tomato and physalis plants from rejected fruit are
common casuals, though, and I occasionally have avocados shoot in
the heap.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 15/12/2015 12:37, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:10:08 -0000, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

Strangely I never compost potato peelings, my mothers advice
some 55+ years ago. She said that potatoes would grow from
them. I'm sure it is one of those old wives tales, but such
long held habits are hard to break.

Years ago we had a huge compost heap used for any garden or kitchen
waste. Potato peelings often resulted in some potatoes growing on the
heap. The tubas they produced were perfectly edible.

Did they play a tune as well?

Potatoes would be a pernicious weed if they were not edible!
Not quite in the league of horseradish but not so far off.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:

Potatoes would be a pernicious weed if they were not edible!
Not quite in the league of horseradish but not so far off.

Not in Cambridge, they wouldn't be. Few are deep enough to survive
even an average winter, and blight is ubiquitous.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 15/12/15 14:41, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:

Potatoes would be a pernicious weed if they were not edible!
Not quite in the league of horseradish but not so far off.

Not in Cambridge, they wouldn't be. Few are deep enough to survive
even an average winter, and blight is ubiquitous.

I wish someone would tell mine that: some have new 9" shoots!

If I shout at them unkindly (cf Price Charles), will
they take the hint and withdraw?

On 15/12/2015 14:00, Martin Brown wrote:
On 15/12/2015 12:37, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:10:08 -0000, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

Strangely I never compost potato peelings, my mothers advice
some 55+ years ago. She said that potatoes would grow from
them. I'm sure it is one of those old wives tales, but such
long held habits are hard to break.

Years ago we had a huge compost heap used for any garden or kitchen
waste. Potato peelings often resulted in some potatoes growing on the
heap. The tubas they produced were perfectly edible.

Did they play a tune as well?

Potatoes would be a pernicious weed if they were not edible!
Not quite in the league of horseradish but not so far off.

Apart from volunteers on the site of former potato crops, potatoes are a
relatively infrequent casual, and in my experience tend not to persist
on any one site. So, I don't think that they would qualify as a
pernicious weed.

On 2015-12-15, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

Years ago we had a huge compost heap used for any garden or kitchen
waste. Potato peelings often resulted in some potatoes growing on the
heap. The tubas they produced were perfectly edible.

But how did they sound?

(ducks)

Following up on the potato line, I was turning this years heap
into the next container, and came across 2 small, perfectly
sound potatoes about half way down. My guess is that they must
have got there about 3-4 months ago. How I wonder. They could
have come from some stray peelings that got in and grew,they
were to small to be commercially bought from a shop, and I do
not grow potatoes any more.

Strange


In article -
september.org, says...

In article -
september.org, says...

We recently had an ammount of cooked green veg, cabbage etc
left over from a dinner party.I wanted to put it on the compost
heap, but, swmbo said that you can not compost cooked food. Who
is right? To my mind whilst the texture may have changed and a
few additives like salt included basically raw & cooked are the
same!


Thank you for all the response, I'm glad I was right!

Strangely I never compost potato peelings, my mothers advice
some 55+ years ago. She said that potatoes would grow from
them. I'm sure it is one of those old wives tales, but such
long held habits are hard to break.



--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales