Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

djohn2002uk

Little_Vics wrote: »

confused now. I currently have an old bin full (with worms and holes drilled in it). Should I just leave it for a year or so and let magic happen?

Turn it over every month or so and you should get some compost later in the summer. Lift it up about a foot and see what's at the bottom. If it's just like nice soil then get that out and use it.

pink_poppy wrote: »

Should daleks/compost heaps be sited where it gets sunny then??
I don't know what to do about getting one as I really don't fancy rats sniffing around!! :eek:

If you don't put food or meat in there you wont get rats. Ours is behind the greenhouse and shed and does OK there. Very little direct sun but out of sight.

Lotus-eater

djohn2002uk wrote: »

If you don't put food or meat in there you wont get rats.

Alot of people have found that very often talked about information as wrong I'm afraid.
It probably depends more on where you live.

Little_Vics

I think there's no hope if I can't even compost properly. Heck.

Think we need to rename this 'help Little Vics grow something that isn't a weed or potato'.

Lotus-eater

Little_Vics wrote: »

I think there's no hope if I can't even compost properly. Heck.

Think we need to rename this 'help Little Vics grow something that isn't a weed or potato'.

Hey, making compost is a skill that needs to be learnt. No one just wakes up and knows how to do it.
Sounds like you've made good so far, otherwise it wouldn't have any worms in it.

djohn2002uk

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Alot of people have found that very often talked about information as wrong I'm afraid.
It probably depends more on where you live.

I'm sorry but if you stick to vegetation and paper/cardboard or similar then there is nothing to entice rats, unless you have a breed of vegetarian rats in your area but I haven't heard of those yet. I think you'll find some of the people who say they only put veg in thier heaps forget that cooked veg attracts vermin and shouldn't be used. We've had 2 daleks for 10yrs and 1 dalek for 20 yrs before that and never seen a rat and yet they are about on an old railway embankment about 100yds away.

Little_Vics

Can I put all the slugs I find into my compost, or will that make them morph into mutants?

djohn2002uk

Little_Vics wrote: »

Can I put all the slugs I find into my compost, or will that make them morph into mutants?

I kill every slug and snail that I see. Put them in your compost heap and they'll think it's Christmas. I sprinkle a few slug pellets around the outside from time to time. We also put the worms from the compost that we take out back in again, but if the conditions are good they'll multiply pretty rapidly anyway.

Lotus-eater

djohn2002uk wrote: »

I'm sorry but if you stick to vegetation and paper/cardboard or similar then there is nothing to entice rats, unless you have a breed of vegetarian rats in your area but I haven't heard of those yet. I think you'll find some of the people who say they only put veg in thier heaps forget that cooked veg attracts vermin and shouldn't be used. We've had 2 daleks for 10yrs and 1 dalek for 20 yrs before that and never seen a rat and yet they are about on an old railway embankment about 100yds away.

Well you're wrong I'm afraid.
I got rats in mine, so do my neighbours. I've seen loads of reports of the same and no easily eatable stuff in them. Rats will eat anything and I guess the warmth must play a part.

mrbadexample

Things were going so well:



So, do I:

1. Dig the slabs up and ruin the lawn
2. Chisel off the bits I can see and forget about them
3. Ignore them and put the liner over them
4. Shorten the pond a bit that end.

2 and 4 are the current favourites.

gazza975526570

mrbadexample wrote: »

Things were going so well:



So, do I:

1. Dig the slabs up and ruin the lawn
2. Chisel off the bits I can see and forget about them
3. Ignore them and put the liner over them
4. Shorten the pond a bit that end.

2 and 4 are the current favourites.

i wouldnt do number 1 and personally would do number 4!