Re: Compost

**l*@juno.com**

No rats here. I wonder if this is an urban-area problem. In the country,
we have groundhogs, chipmunks, rabbits, opossums, squirrels, etc. I
suppose there are mice, but we never see any. The worst nuisance we have
is hardly worth mentioning: Squirrels and crows carry eggshells out of
the heap to places that are more convenient to them, so we sometimes find
eggshells in the most unlikely spots.

Regards,
Lois

Lois J. de Vries
Visit http://loisdevries.blogspot.com

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:48:22 -0500 Carol Bradford <cbradfo1@twcny.rr.com>
writes:
> Hi all,
> Nobody's mentioned rats.  We had enormous ones living in a "pile it  
> 
> up and leave it alone" compost heap. They eat anything people eat.  
> I  
> first spotted them at dusk feasting on watermelon rinds.  There were 
>  
> no bones, meat, fish, fat etc. etc. in there.  The $500 composters  
> 
> have the virtue of being rodent proof which is good in an urban  
> situation, at least.  The bottomless black plastic ones are quite  
> accessible to vermin.
> Best wishes,
> Carol Bradford
> Syracuse, NY, USA
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