Composting

An odd question now, can you put in your compost bin salad leaves that are past their best? Not neccessairly rotting but you know the ones in your fridge that you would eat? and herbs and i suppose any veg like that? Im sure you can?

 

Yep. Past their best means they are already starting to decompose/compost. Any thing that isn't cooked can be put on your compost. In fact actually rotting can go on the compost!

 

If it's organic it will compost, though meat, fish and poultry can be problematic. Add your egg shells and any kitchen towels and loo rolls too. Pasta, bread etc all rot down and turn into stuff you can return to the soil in your garden

 

Pasta and bread will rot down but I would not put them in a compost container that is not rat proof - they are cooked food. Cooked food can go in a Green Cone if you had one of those.

 

has anyone actually had this "bread cooked food rat" problem? how do they know its cooked? what is it in the bread they like? milk? egg? butter?

 

I asked that question a while back on here. The response I got was that cooked food tends to have more of an aroma about it than raw food does so vermin will be more attracted to it by the smell. They will eat raw food but if there is a pungent smelling bit of cheesy quiche or half a chop then they will come from miles around.

A bit like us really. Big difference between a raw leg of lamb or lump of dough and something that's been in the oven for an hour and fill the house with that lovely roasting smell......

I thought this was quite a logical explaination

Susanna

 

That does make sense susanna, i just hadn't experienced it myself yet. Not that i go overboard adding loads of cooked food. Just the odd cooked bread or pasta.

 

At the school i used to teach at some of the kids used to throw their sandwiches in the bushes and then stuff themselves on crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks bought on the way to school - so much for the mums sending them in with sarnies. Boy, did we have a rat problem! They were big and would not even budge if you shouted at them.