Slugs in compost bin

foxgloves

Try & do what you can to encourage birds & hedgehogs. Also frogs & toads. All are brilliant slug scoffers. if I find slug or snail eggs when I'm digging, I put them on the grass for the birds & they treat it like a 5 star meal.....gone in seconds!

Bumble_Bee_4

Are the slugs those big ones with multi-coloured camouflage type markings? We've got loads in our compost bin and I checked up on them - they are not the type to go for living plants. Decaying stuff is their thing. So wouldn't worry about them. Something large has to start off the composting process so that smaller things like worms and then bacteria can finish off the job.

Orange_King

meg72 wrote: »

It is really OK to compost the rhubarb leaves they are only poisonous if you eat them.

I have done this for years and have good compost

I hope so as I have been putting our rhubarb leaves back into the compost. It is truly satisfying when the circle is complete - grow your stuff, put the waste in the compost bin and the compost back into your soil.

Farway

funkymonkey849 wrote: »

We have loads of slugs in our plastic compost bin I'm worried they are laying their eggs and when I come to use the compost around my plants it'll be slugorama!

If you spread your compost on the soil late Autumn or Winter you will find frost, or hungry birds etc will soon sort them out

OK a few may survive but I can honestly say the improved growth and general "ooomph" compost adds to soil that it will not be slugorama

Enterprise_1701C

We have a family of mice in ours! They do no damage (apart from the shed floor that is rotten anyway) and show no inclination to come inside, and they are driving the neighbourhood cats up the wall! They seem to be savvy little things and we have decided to leave them be. The funny thing is we never see slugs in the compost bin - don't know if mice eat slugs?