Re: Compost

**"* Z* <b*@gmail.com>**

I use the city Plastic bins for my compost. I always put down concrete 
sidewalk slabs and a small concrete block on top of the lid. The block on 
top is overkill. For twenty years I have created great compost from my own 
yard. I like it because I know where the organic matter has been.
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From: <yarrow@sfo.com>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] 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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