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Title: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: mummybunny on January 03, 2009, 12:48:54
Hi

Just quick one also ca you put oranges in?

Thanks lucy
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: bazzysbarn on January 03, 2009, 13:10:38
Hi Lucy
     We wouldnt put bread in as this would encourage rats. Citrus fruits we cut up into smaller pieces.
              Bazzysbarn
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: angle shades on January 03, 2009, 13:15:24
 :) 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
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: betula on January 03, 2009, 13:22:19
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 :)
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: mummybunny on January 03, 2009, 13:27:23
thanks the birds are gong to be happy then lol With the bread that is dont think they'll think much of oranges  :D
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: Kea on January 03, 2009, 14:31:47
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.
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: Hyacinth on January 03, 2009, 14:43:12
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)
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: saddad on January 03, 2009, 15:23:36
Or just leave on the surface for the slugs to congregate for collection and destruction...  :)
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: mummybunny on January 03, 2009, 16:48:43
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
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: saddad on January 03, 2009, 16:51:37
They can probably "cook" it at a much higher temp...  ???
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: timnsal on January 03, 2009, 16:54:40
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
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: saddad on January 03, 2009, 16:56:10
That's what I meant...  :-[
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: timnsal on January 03, 2009, 16:58:41
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
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: saddad on January 03, 2009, 17:02:03
You should come up and see our site sometime Sally... and DebP's fabled shed and the big School's greenhouse..  ;D
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: timnsal on January 03, 2009, 17:06:42
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
Title: Re: Can you bread in the compost bin?
Post by: saddad on January 03, 2009, 17:07:36
I'll drop you a pm  ;D
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