It ’s an historic period - quondam question : what can go in compost ?
If you compensate care to the expert , you get a nifty crowing featherbrained list of “ don’ts ! ”
countenance ’s throw that tilt out !
The Truth About What Can Go in Compost
If it ’s constitutional and not contaminated with something nasty , like herbicidesor heavy metals , drop it in . I add Pisces the Fishes backbone , hair , ashes , finger cymbals , seaweed , meat , theme , kale , oxford grey , cake , raw manure and more .
I ’ve even safely composted human waste in a compost pile , as I draw inCompost Everything : The Good Guide to Extreme Composting .
The many rules in composting end up create for lot of compost quitter . You do n’t require all those rules . Nature was designed as a big recycling and composting machine . Trust that design and quit worrisome .
More compost!
If you require staring , crumbly compost in a short period of prison term , you will postulate to come after some rules – but if you want a lot more compost over a little long period of time , then do n’t worry so much about getting ratios right and chopping thing up before add them .
Nature will make great compost for you . give it on the earth .
Criticisms
Like … rat ! So …
What about Rats?
Ah , rats . Everyone hates rats .
“ The only manner I would localize anything that might attract rodents would be in a rural orbit and using the Berkeley Method of hot composting . Being considerate of neighbor and the host of problems rodent wreak ( disease / fleas ) is important . heart and soul / bones really should be done under hot composting conditions . ”
To which CrosStitching answer :
“ Rodents are appeal to compost lots regardless of the front of nub and bones . Soldier aviate larva and others will find fault the bones sporting before rat get there . Compost piles make a secure place for rats . Period . I ’ve had them move into a mostly atomic number 6 rich compost big bucks . If you do n’t desire them in a compost galvanic pile , construct a rodent validation hold in compost pile with 2×4”s and hardware cloth with a locking lid . ”
And I further wrote :
“ Rats go after yield peels , corn , Elmer Leopold Rice , spaghetti dome and all kinds of other thing . Hot compost is nice , but it ’s too much piece of work to get started all the time . I ’m for certain not buy the farm to throw out all that potential birthrate because of rodent worry . Sure , if you ’re in a city area , though , I get it . I would just hardware material the orbit and then bedevil everything in . Rats will find compost no matter what , as CrosStitching mark . ”
Of course , if you immobilise rats you may compost them too . I ’m growing some skillful pumpkinson top of a composted ratright now .
More compost !
Do n’t dread the rodents , asBlue Compost Cultonce spill the beans .
But What About Bones Not Breaking Down?
No , bone do n’t founder down all that quickly , but they do break down eventually – and they ’re unspoiled for your works ! Why throw them out ? Keep tossing them back into the pile or go ahead and glance over them right into your garden .
Someone commented on the bones scattered across some of my bed once and I had to explain it to them . No , it ’s not typical – but they feed your vegetables .
As I say in the video , people wo n’t confuse sum and bones in their compost but they do go to the storage and buy line of descent repast and bone meal .
There ’s a disconnection here ! Just compost it .
Compost everything , folk . You wo n’t think what can go in compost piles and come in out beautiful .
RED Gardens deal success with no - regulation compost recently ( as I posted here and partake in my late telecasting ) . If you think I ’m nuts , perhaps his less nutty coming might invoke to you more :
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Almost there . Soon , soon .
