I was interested in the comments about Garotta, my OH used to add it to the bins in the belief that it would speed up the process, but to the best of my knowledge he hasn't used it for a while. I'm not sure if we still have any lurking in the black hole otherwise known as the garage, but it's probably years old and has lost its "oomph"' if so ?
All sorts can go in. I remember one chap saying he added his nail clippings, as a bit of hoof and horn. ( anyone remember that?)
I can definitely remember Bob Flowerdew mentioning that on GQT a few years back. I remember thinking at the time that one's clippings for a whole lifetime would not amount to much.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
however while I think it may well be a good idea to grow legumes etc solely to provide nitrogenous materials for your compost heap, it would undoubtedly be frowned upon to harvest humans for the express purpose of bulking up one’s compost heap. 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
All sorts can go in. I remember one chap saying he added his nail clippings, as a bit of hoof and horn. ( anyone remember that?)
I can definitely remember Bob Flowerdew mentioning that on GQT a few years back. I remember thinking at the time that one's clippings for a whole lifetime would not amount to much.
Imagine spotting a nail clipping when turning the soil over. I get a certain satisfaction from seeing bits of eggshell and knowing it's from compost previously dug in. Less so teabags. I've started drying them, cutting them open and storing the contents. I like tea so it soon fills an ice cream tub. I put some around roses in spring, (said to deter aphids) some around shrubs and trees like fothergillas, an azalea, cercidiphyllum, amelanchiers, and some on the compost.
We use loose leaf tea because of the packaging issue (well to be fair, OH does … I think most folk know me as a coffee drinker ☕️ 😎) … however he likes decaffeinated tea in the evenings and that doesn’t seem to be available as loose leaf, so he hunts down brands which guarantee not to use plastics in their teabags … so far he seems to have been successful and they’re decomposing nicely in the compost 👍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I'm not sure if we still have any lurking in the black hole otherwise known as the garage, but it's probably years old and has lost its "oomph"' if so ?
I can definitely remember Bob Flowerdew mentioning that on GQT a few years back. I remember thinking at the time that one's clippings for a whole lifetime would not amount to much.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
https://brightly.eco/blog/human-composting#:~:text=Human%20composting%2C%20also%20known%20as%20terramation%2C%20is%20the,to%20do%20what%20it%20was%20made%20to%20do.
however while I think it may well be a good idea to grow legumes etc solely to provide nitrogenous materials for your compost heap, it would undoubtedly be frowned upon to harvest humans for the express purpose of bulking up one’s compost heap. 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And can you tell what yesterday's weather was like from how many tea bags?
3 -- must have been a lovely day
8 -- non stop rain, indoors all day.
I must say I was a bit shocked when I started cutting them open and found powdery stuff. I'd expected tea leaves! (Yorkshire Tea. It's nice though.)