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Re: Compost

It's very easy to keep rats out of bottomless black plastic bins: put 
hardware cloth underneath.

I saw a tunnel in the finished compost in one of my bins after an 
unusually cold night, so I added quarter-inch hardware cloth under 
all the bins and haven't seen any sign of rats in the bins since.

Oh, and many county/city solid waste depts. offer bins at a big 
discount, so the cost is more like $30, not $500, each.

Tanya Kucak
Palo Alto, Calif.

At 1:48 PM -0500 1/15/08, Carol Bradford wrote:
>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.
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