Topic: Can you bread in the compost bin?

[mummybunny]

Hi

Just quick one also ca you put oranges in?

Thanks lucy

[bazzysbarn]

Hi Lucy
     We wouldnt put bread in as this would encourage rats. Citrus fruits we cut up into smaller pieces.
              Bazzysbarn

[angle shades]

 :) if bread is put in compost bins on our site, the local fox buries it on my plot!

and i do believe worms don't take to kindly to citrus fruit too much acid?/ shades x

[betula]

As a general rule,no cooked food in the compost as it attracts vermin.

I put the odd bit of mouldy fruit in and I do not think it has caused any probs :)

[mummybunny]

thanks the birds are gong to be happy then lol With the bread that is dont think they'll think much of oranges  :D

[Kea]

Sorry but bread is not good for the birds either.
It fills up their stomachs but is not nutritious enough but then they don't have room to eat more nutritious food.

[Hyacinth]

yeah, not even bread for the ducks for the same reason, Kea :-[

As has been said, not bread in the compost cos of the rat/foxes..mostly rats for me :-\....citrus, again, balance it out & cut it up small & mix it in...grapefruit halves, tho...stick them upended on the top of canes and attract the earwigs - which you can then dispose of 8)

[saddad]

Or just leave on the surface for the slugs to congregate for collection and destruction...  :)

[mummybunny]

They say you learn something new everyday! In the bin it goes then!

Will jot down the tip for collecting slugs though great tip thanks    ;D


We have a food  bin thats collected by the council every week why is it they say pop any food waste in even cooked why is this?

Lucy

[saddad]

They can probably "cook" it at a much higher temp...  ???

[timnsal]

Our council started allowing any food waste in the composting bins when they got a closed composter, so it would reach higher temperatures to kill off any nasty bugs, and the rats/birds/foxes couldn't get at the contents.

Sally

[saddad]

That's what I meant...  :-[

[timnsal]

I guessed that :D - your waste from Derby probably goes to the same one as ours from Burton.

But I'd already written mine by the time I saw your post.

Sally

[saddad]

You should come up and see our site sometime Sally... and DebP's fabled shed and the big School's greenhouse..  ;D

[timnsal]

I will do - thanks ;D

Our site doesn't have anything as exciting as fabled sheds - or plant sales or open days  - or anything except plots and waters.

Sally

[saddad]

I'll drop you a pm  ;D