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Mummy Muddy PawsMummy Muddy Paws Posts: 671
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Am I the only person that does this?  Remembering my biology lessons and things having a greater surface area being more efficient (just think surface area of lungs).  Things will obviously rot down quicker if they are chopped up, I'd like to know I'm not bonkers because I roughly chop things like cabbage leaves and broccoli stalks.

I'm probably certifiable in other things I do, I'd just like to know this is one area of my life where I'm relatively sane.

My ambition in life is to have enough money when I'm older to be regarded as 'eccentric'.  Not just poor and plain loony.image

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  • Woodgreen wonderboyWoodgreen wonderboy Posts: 2,322

    Hi, MMP...I only chop up big, woody stuff, like brocolli stalks, although I try to eat most of it if I can...image  image

  • Highland JeannieHighland Jeannie Posts: 381

    I wonder about this too, we always chop up the banana skins; this is our first composting year.

    Our bins are not in a "hot" place & of the beehive type, which I have read are not as efficient as other types.

  • figratfigrat Posts: 1,619

    Most of my kitchen waste is peelings etc but if I find something like a wrinkly apple or fossilised orange, I do chop those up. Can't do any harm, can it?

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    I just bung it all on the heap.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • archiepemarchiepem Posts: 1,155

    i just put the lot in when i get  a bucket full . and i use beehives no problems at all they work for me . 

  • Gold1locksGold1locks Posts: 498

    I chuck mine straight in. Grapefruit skins, banana skins, teabags, the lot - into my black dalek bins. Quick shake up with the stirrer once a fortnight - comes out loverly, black brown and crumbly. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,109

    I chop up huge outer cabbage leaves and stems into smaller chunks, but I don't chop them small.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • chickychicky Posts: 10,407

    We just bung it all on.  We keep adding for a year, then scrape the top off, use the bottom and start again for the next year.  All seems to rot down fine.  Have just started to use this year's lot.

    I'm sure chopping will get you there quicker - but waiting a year suits us fine.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    Got a compost bin coming any day so I will test the theories!

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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