tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post6252655427876017856..comments2024-03-29T09:45:58.686+00:00Comments on Rachel the Gardener: Compost - the Bucket of ShameRachel the Gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17025126472323801610noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-57005860189264694892020-11-17T15:24:25.734+00:002020-11-17T15:24:25.734+00:00Hahahaha! A credit card! Oh, you should have stuck...Hahahaha! A credit card! Oh, you should have stuck it all back together, and presented him with it!Rachel the Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17025126472323801610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-37486494594883573602020-11-17T15:23:36.050+00:002020-11-17T15:23:36.050+00:00Hey Mal, *wave* that's ok, you are welcome to ...Hey Mal, *wave* that's ok, you are welcome to spread citrus peel and bits of eggshell all over your garden! <br /><br />I'm still on the fence about coffee grounds: common sense suggests that caffeine is noxious stuff and therefore to be avoided, but some of my super-eco friends swear by it. So if your brandlings are having a lovely time noshing it, well, maybe it's not that bad after all. Or maybe the caffeine is keeping them on full alert, and working double-time?Rachel the Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17025126472323801610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-35438227346664381022020-11-17T14:38:24.512+00:002020-11-17T14:38:24.512+00:00Yes, I once was finding throughout a garden bed al...Yes, I once was finding throughout a garden bed all the various bits of my husband's expired credit card that he put through the shredder. I did not gather them all up to gift to him, but did tell him about it after. I have found a few brands of tea that I both like and which the bags compost well. I have bigger problems with those instant seed sprouting pots that you activate with water. I spent two summers picking them out of the garden. No wonder none of the seeds planted in them really took off!JAGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345829618712676027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736928270390224037.post-9695865111332263282020-11-15T21:43:16.946+00:002020-11-15T21:43:16.946+00:00Bang on about vegetable starch bags, and tea bags....Bang on about vegetable starch bags, and tea bags. Sadly I incur your wrath for composting coffee grounds, citrus peel and egg shells. The citrus peel is acidic and could upset the pH balance, but the eggshells (which I always squash) are alkaline so help offset that. The spent coffee grounds are probably mildly noxious. I am guided by the brandling worms - which seem to multiply in the mix. They could an escape into the earth if they didn't like it but they are too busy chomping through mix and turning it into compost. I have accepted Bob Flowerdew's criteria for inclusion in a compost heap: "Anything that has itself grown". Malhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17169050358049841998noreply@blogger.com