Peanut Shells

Having just come in to cool off for a moment having stuffed myself with delicious roasted peanuts washed down with a Sangria (Portuguese style), I wondering wondering if anyone had any ideas for using the redundant shells.

In the winter I collect them in little baggies and use them as firelighters but am at a loss at what to do with them the remainder of the year. Is there any nutritional soil value if crushed and dug in?

Thanks for any advice.

 

If you've a compost heap I'd suggest you throw them in it as they'll help the brown/green balance.
I doubt if there is significant nutritional value to be gained by adding direct to the soil (could be wrong though and they may contain some super growth stimulating compound!) but they should at least help improve soil structure.

Either option is "greener" than burning them.

 

True, Dave W, but also a better option than just dumping them in the "lixo".

I haven't got a compost heap. I have a relatively small garden, albet that I live in the middle of the orange orchards in the middle of nowhere, but such things would attract critters you really wouldn't want to encounter ... even on a sunny day ... mice with bodies six inches long (rats even bigger), snakes ... lovely bunnies, though!

I'm just trying to be "greener" - Portugal has wonderful "country recycling systems".

Thanks for your thoughts.

Tchau!

 

Sod the bunnies, the snakes are your friends by eating rats and mice. Get some pics of them, there are ten species in Portugal.

 

Call me a wuss, but I prefer my friends not to squiggle. :(


Wiggling is fine though.

 

Don't know if I want to get that close to take a picture. Actually haven't seen one in the garden this year yet. We had one living in our shed, which we have now named Casa da Cobra, but I think it's moved on now.

Tortuosa, don't you ever go to bed?

 

Yes, just off for a nap now. :rolleyes: