I went to have toast this morning and the loaf was mouldy! :(
I didn't add it to my compost but could I have done? I wasn't too sure because of the mould, so I erred on the side of caution and put it in the bin.
Sarah
I put bread and cooked pasta in the compost, no probs
If you start to put too much cooked food on your compost heap / bin you may start to attract vermin. if its down the allotment it may not be too much of a problem, around the house is another story.
Raw food like peelings, banana skins etc are fine since they rot faster.
Birds will take most bread, even stuff thats a bit moldy.
Hope this helps,
woppa
After having rats years ago my basic rule is:
Anything out of kitchen cooked goes to my chickens or gets thrown.
Anything out of the kitchen raw compost bin or cooked for chickens.
I put bread and cooked pasta in the compost, no probs
Quote from: growmore on November 30, 2006, 10:27:35
I ain't creating no Des Res for rats ... :) cheers Jim..
well put Jim ;D and totally agree..
Another question of 'it all depends'?
Here - for ever - everything has gone on the heaps. Although they all border upon neighbours, no complaints - as yet!
Rats? Yes - they come & go & mind their own business. It was far more iffy to find an Adder on one recently!!
What happened when you found the adder, Tim? Sounds really exciting but scary too.
I have adders down lottie, they normaly curl up on the plastic bags full of chicken poo, asleep in the sun.
OH came down with me in the summer and I did not tell him about them he saw this one and it was huge asleep.
I thought OH was going to pass out " Thats a adder" say him well we do border a large park.
But if I see one of the peacocks on lottie well I would lock myself in the car. Sometimes they are on the dirt track and just defiy you to drive.
Its all getting intouch with nature hee hee. Just show respect and keep your distance?
Thanks for all your comments. I guess next time I eat the bread too slowly, I'll pop it in the compost bowl ready for the drive to the allotment. :)
:-\ good luck, then, Sarah.....and good luck to the peeps who live near your lottie, too :(
...from One who has Suffered ... >:(
I've got a rat despite putting only raw peelings etc but I guess it's a nice warm place. Though i wondered whether the eggshell atrracted them or my neighbours hamster waste which may include uneaten hamster food I don't know I didn't look at it in great detail. I think the hamsters are dead now as they were nearly 4 years old and I haven't been given any waste for a couple of months. I keep forgetting to ask. Don't want to ask in front of their kids really.
Quote from: Alishka_Maxwell on December 01, 2006, 18:13:31
:-\ good luck, then, Sarah.....and good luck to the peeps who live near your lottie, too :(
...from One who has Suffered ... >:(
Would rats be a problem for us as we have plastic compost bins? ???
Sarah
If rats are around you'll get them whatever you put in
:o I have plastic dialek bins and only put in raw peelings from home, but I still have at least one a rat in them, the warmth attracts them but if you put other foods in I suppose it just increases your chances of more. I shook mine up the other day and one shot out frightened the bloody life out of me, :o :
:o :o they reckon theres a rat nesting so many yards of of every person in the country I'm sure someone on here will give us the the precise ratio :( .
As Jim says we don't want to start a des res for rats. :) ;) :D ;D
My Granny always reckoned it was a yard, Kev... Not much point in worrying if she was right!