Think that would only work if you were egg bound Hosta and had several thousand a week to use!
I've always put orange/tangerine peel in compost bins and never had any issue. My children ate hundreds of the damn things when they were little so we had a fair amount of them!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It is interesting to see the rubbish some journalists write too. I remember a classic when someone wondered why their apple tree had suddenly produced lots of apples. The answer was that it was a reaction to the current drought/fine weather. Poppycock! It was because the weather had been just right the year before and the year before that!
Come, come, since when can trees foretell the winter weather?? Well, they got it wrong this winter. Loads of berries and few winter migrants to eat them.
Everything goes on the heap, it all rots down, mixes in, I do agree that Avacado stones don't rot down that quickly though,.
I don't put tomato seeds on there, fed up with loads of little plants springing up over the garden, but apart from that, anything you've got. There is absolutely zero waste in this house, all paper, card, junk mail goes in, but I am finding now there's a lot of paper with plastic coating on the outside, I have sat and peeled it all off but bit time consuming this time of the year.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
It a matter of opinion what you can or can not place in a compost bin
I agree that most things will decompose but for me I prefer not to put everthing in.
As for banana skins. Also anybody who has ever done any gardening knows, banana skins are high in potassium and if I was to composted hundred of these in my bin, there a good chance that a good level of potassium would be created within my compost
I think Welshonion was suggesting that unless the peels formed a significant proportion of the overal heap, it was unlikely to significantly alter the chemical profile.
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Think that would only work if you were egg bound Hosta and had several thousand a week to use!
I've always put orange/tangerine peel in compost bins and never had any issue. My children ate hundreds of the damn things when they were little so we had a fair amount of them!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It is interesting to see the rubbish some journalists write too. I remember a classic when someone wondered why their apple tree had suddenly produced lots of apples. The answer was that it was a reaction to the current drought/fine weather. Poppycock! It was because the weather had been just right the year before and the year before that!
wasn't a harbinger of a really severe winter?
erm, since they invented tabloid news?
Everything goes on the heap, it all rots down, mixes in, I do agree that Avacado stones don't rot down that quickly though,.
I don't put tomato seeds on there, fed up with loads of little plants springing up over the garden, but apart from that, anything you've got. There is absolutely zero waste in this house, all paper, card, junk mail goes in, but I am finding now there's a lot of paper with plastic coating on the outside, I have sat and peeled it all off but bit time consuming this time of the year.
Nothing to do with compost but Orange Skins.
Ram as many as you can into a large old glass sweet jar or Kilner type jar with ¼ bag of sugar.
Top up with Gin and leave for six months, shaking occasionally.
Strain, decant and serve.
Result. Lovely sweet orange flavored Gin. Mmmmmmm!!!!
now THAT'S recycling Simon.
It a matter of opinion what you can or can not place in a compost bin
I agree that most things will decompose but for me I prefer not to put everthing in.
As for banana skins. Also anybody who has ever done any gardening knows, banana skins are high in potassium and if I was to composted hundred of these in my bin, there a good chance that a good level of potassium would be created within my compost
Or is that rubbish
I think Welshonion was suggesting that unless the peels formed a significant proportion of the overal heap, it was unlikely to significantly alter the chemical profile.
I'm sure no offense was meant.