Composting sweetcorn stalks

[petemason]

I've got about 40 sweetcorn plants that need taking out of the ground and I wondered whether it was worth stripping off the leaves to put in the compost bin.
Should I stick the stalks and roots in the compost as well?
I'm bothered that they might not rot down sufficiently to use next year.

[petemason]

[redimp]

I compots everything so I stick them in.  You could stamp on them to break them up to speed up the process but I don't think I did last yar and there was no sign of them this.

[cambourne7]

You can always saw the top and bottom off a 2lr drink bottle and put lenghts of corn stalk into the tube you have left and leave it somewhere accessable over winter for little creapy crawleys.... the compost it in the spring when they have left...

[Marymary]

I've just put mine on the compost today & have done on previous years & haven't noticed them surviving like twigs do but I do like the idea of the bug home so might try & rescue some tomorrow.

[petemason]

I like the idea of the bug home as well. I bought a rather fearsome-looking knife from a car boot last week for 50p which I've been chopping things up with today so the bug home would probably turn out to be a much safer option.

[tim]

Glad to hear this - I was going to bin mine!

[redimp]

I will have a crack at that too :)

[djbrenton]

Our friendly local supplier of free wood chip visits regularly. Next time he comes I'm going to prevail on him to let me put my sweetcorn through his trailer sized chipper before I throw them on the compost heap.

[tim]

Pity we sold ours.

[supersprout]

I compots everything so I stick them in.  You could stamp on them to break them up to speed up the process but I don't think I did last yar and there was no sign of them this.

Chop into 1 ft lengths on the lottie path and drive your car over them a few times ;D

[Squashfan]

I'm too lazy - I'm leaving them on the side to rot down a bit in the elements, and then chucking them in. But this is mainly because our council had a biiiiig pile of horse manure delivered, so our bins are fulla horse poo!  ;D

[cambourne7]

Our friendly local supplier of free wood chip visits regularly. Next time he comes I'm going to prevail on him to let me put my sweetcorn through his trailer sized chipper before I throw them on the compost heap.

Try freecycle someone might give you one to keep :-)

[saddad]

That's a great idea DJ and Cams.. one of our plotholders runs a garden business....
;D