Kitchen Garden Forum

I know you're not supposed to compost cooked food as it may attract vermin, but what about vegetables that have only been blanched for a minute or so, such as my broad bean skins?
Also, eggshells, surely uncooked ones would attract rats as much as cooked ones wouldn't they?

I include both in my bins, covering them with greens and soil to maintain heat and layers.

Me too

Hello Jude
Time for you to get a few hens, I think. They love kitchen scraps of all sorts and turn them into beautiful tasty fresh eggs! They will also give you good stuff for your compost heap! They're no trouble and even take themselves off to bed in the evening as the light fails!
John

Make sure you crush the egg shells as they don't break up in the heap and look a bit odd when you turn out the compost and have a crop of eggs round your veggies!
Never put any meat waste in your heap.

Thanks all. I do know not to put meat waste etc. on the heap and I always crush eggshells (I've been composting for years) It was just a thought about whether it made any difference if eggshells were cooked or raw as far as attracting unwelcome creatures and I did wonder if cooked veg.(without fat, sauce etc.)would compost properly.

Hi Jude,
With Egg Shells I always bake them before they go on the compost. When I am doing the Sunday roast I pop them in a roasting tin and bung them in the bottom of the oven. They become brittle and then break up very easily and distribution is so easy you can then spread them equally over the compost. There is then nothing there to attract Vermin.

As always, Johnboy, total brilliant simple sense! Ta muchly!