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Are banana peels good for compost or not?
NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)Today is the perfect day for a banana appropriate compost question! although even it may be a slippery slope (groan....)
Orrex
(63,168 posts)We compost everythong we can, but we don't want to stink out the neighborhood.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)too and have never had trouble with banana peels.
I don't know if you have a "recipe" for your composter, but mine is pretty simple...
No meat
Whatever "green" stuff goes into the composter gets an equal measure of "non green" stuff...example... vegetable peelings get wrapped in newspaper or brown paper bag.
And water.
I love the smell of nicely rotted compost...
Orrex
(63,168 posts)Our boys eat a lot of bananas , though, so I'd love to be able to compost those peels as well.
Thanks for the feedback. We have just a small yard, but we generate a good amount of grass clippings and leaves. Coupled with fruit/vegetable waste from our kitchen, it makes for quite a nice volume of compost!
Thanks again!
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Never tried using thongs.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)also, peeing in your compost is good too!!
I've occasionally invited male friends to take a leak in the composter.
by the way, I'm sorry I haven't yet replied to that past reply you posted to me. I wanted to wait till I wasn't really angry about the whole mess, and give it a good amount of time so I could think; and then I got busy and distracted. I'm willing to revisit if it hasn't gone so far down the river already that it's become moot....
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)in order to slip up intruders.
Hope to catch them in awkward poses and dances with my game cameras. :smok e:
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)But they do take a long time to break down. Perhaps cutting them into small pieces first.