Author Topic: Hair (Read 6877 times)

growmore · « **Reply #20 on:** January 27, 2005, 20:40:42 »

Ok ok, whos brain wave was this then ????
this site got summat to answer for ,,HA HA .

Cats beware

Spurdie · « **Reply #21 on:** January 27, 2005, 20:52:32 »

Growmore, when I first saw your cat picture I thought it had had an unfortunate accident (a dose of the skitters) after smoking a pack of cigarettes. Then I read the thread and discovered it was not to do with incontinent cats, but HAIR.

salad muncher · « **Reply #22 on:** January 28, 2005, 10:38:18 »

Sorry John I thought this was a forum !

English Dictionary

1. forum, Meeting or medium for open descussion or debate.

sorry I chose a word or choice of word you did not agree with, but was at this forum to learn from others and with regards to this debate wanted to understand the mechanics of the use of hair. In the future I shall use more elaborate words just for you, but then I thought this was a friendly and relaxed site.

Debs · « **Reply #23 on:** January 28, 2005, 12:38:13 »

Great piccie Growmore.

Spurdie - Hee! Hee!

I saw the cat piccie with fresh eyes after that ;D

Debs

john_miller · « **Reply #24 on:** January 28, 2005, 14:10:21 »

Apologies to you SM too. My first attempt to post that comment disappeared into the ether and that was a re-write, done under a sense of frustration and lack of time as I type very slowly and generally have to do much editing to convey what I intend to say. I still missed something though! The last line should have read " With any of the definitions decompose is the word I would use- mine is more prosaic than yours though!"

GREENWIZARD · « **Reply #25 on:** March 22, 2005, 07:04:30 »

Clayhithe · « **Reply #26 on:** March 25, 2005, 23:38:57 »

Decomposition needs warmth, air and moisture: anything biological will decompose.

The Ice Man was frozen and dehydrated. Freezing slows everything down, dehydration takes away the moisture.

People who die in peat bogs are surrounded by moisture but no air: they don't decompose.

People who die at the bottom of the Atlantic have moisture and a little air: they decompose slowly and their leather shoes even more slowly.

A warm, well mixed and aerated compost heap will decompose anything organic very quickly.

legless · « **Reply #27 on:** March 26, 2005, 19:05:00 »

as an (erm lucky?) owner of 3 longhaired cats that need grooming, today i planted some broad beans on tiny beds of cat hair as my autumn beans all got scoffed. will report back if it works!!

Heldi · « **Reply #28 on:** March 26, 2005, 22:36:47 »

I put the fluff from the tumble dryer into the composter.

campanula · « **Reply #29 on:** March 27, 2005, 20:49:54 »

hair, pee, old feather pillows, vacuum bags and ashtrays all go in our compost - if it was once alive, even tenuously, in it goes.

salad muncher · « **Reply #30 on:** August 01, 2005, 11:54:18 »

Good bargain at Debenhams for pillows, Was about to throw out old pillows and thought I better see if composting them would work so off they go they are on the bin.

jennym · « **Reply #31 on:** August 01, 2005, 13:30:12 »

Only feather pillows - surely! On the hair side, all out hair clippings go on the compost heap, no problems, along with vacuum cleaner debris (good old dyson empties straight into the bucket outside my back door) and all veg debris and sweepings. Also, I have composted: woolen jerseys ( also used them to line hanging baskets but only black or brown ones) and shredded paper (distributed in small amounts)
As to 'burning' - one gloriously hot year - think it was 2003 - the huge pile of compost I had contained a significant amount of horse manure and, quite spontaneously, smoke came from it for several weeks, and we cooked an egg in foil on the top!!! Also grew carrots and lettuce in January on a 'hot bed', great fun.

westsussexlottie · « **Reply #32 on:** August 01, 2005, 13:47:44 »

We collect hair clippings from the local barber (no chemicals) and use them around plants to deter slugs - it works wonders.
Also the hair gradually rots down into the soil so it improves the soil.

DolphinGarden · « **Reply #33 on:** August 01, 2005, 15:36:49 »

My barber wouldn't give me any waste hair three weeks ago when I got mine cut. And after I plucked up the courage to ask him in the first place, d'oh.

suzylou · « **Reply #34 on:** August 01, 2005, 16:14:27 »

Hmm, maybe your barber has better plans for it ;)

I was watching "The Allotment" on DVD only last night and the guy in that uses hair around his tomato plants in the greenhouses - apparently slugs won't crawl over it, and it rots down into the soil.

I am in the group that is grossed out by the thought of handling the hair clippings of strangers though! :o

wardy · « **Reply #35 on:** August 01, 2005, 17:07:48 »

I like that DVD - it gave me the info re the no dig spuds which I'm just harvesting :)

westsussexlottie · « **Reply #36 on:** August 01, 2005, 18:54:12 »

personally I find the slugs worse to handle than the hair - so hair it is.
Some barbers sell hair to gamekeepers to keep deer within confines as the smell scares them.

Marianne · « **Reply #37 on:** August 01, 2005, 19:08:21 »

I thought hair did not decompose. ??? They have found Egyptian mummies over 2000 years old still bearing a full head of hair ! :o ::)

Perhaps it needs to be treated before putting on the compost heap ?

northener · « **Reply #38 on:** August 01, 2005, 20:18:58 »

I put the fluff from my bellybutton in. Its always blue.

wardy · « **Reply #39 on:** August 01, 2005, 22:52:05 »

That's the same lore as carrots are always in sick ;D

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Author Topic: Hair (Read 6877 times)