Common mistake when composting: These foods are taboo
Created: 06/28/2022Updated: 06/28/2022 08:22
By: Andrea Stettner
Egg shells have no place on the compost.
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With your own compost heap in the garden, you can always make your own natural plant fertilizer.
But not all things are allowed to go into the compost.
A compost garden in the garden offers many benefits.
Properly applied,
food waste such as cucumber, carrot or potato peelings
can be transformed into a high-quality, organic fertilizer within a few weeks.
Compost can also be used wonderfully as a soil conditioner.
And by the way, you relieve your organic or residual waste bin.
But not all waste can go on the compost heap.
Of course, only natural waste should go to the compost.
Plastic, metal or other residual waste should be disposed of elsewhere.
But even with organic waste, not everything should end up on the compost heap.
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Food that shouldn't go on the compost in the garden
While fruit and vegetable leftovers, coffee grounds and tea leaves can usually be composted without any problems, you should rather keep the following things away from the compost:
Food leftovers :
They attract animals such as rats or raccoons, which feast on the leftovers.
This includes leftovers from cooked food, especially leftover meat and dairy products.
Maggots and insects are also attracted to such food and then happily multiply on the compost heap.
Egg shells:
Shells from raw eggs should be excluded from composting because of the risk of salmonella.
Citrus fruits and banana peels:
Their peels are often heavily contaminated with pesticides and should therefore be disposed of with the residual waste.
Cut flowers
from the supermarket – also because of pesticides
Root and seed weeds:
If the weeds germinate on the compost, the wild herbs can also spread in your garden if you spread the compost in the bed and under your plants.
Plant residues with plant diseases
(on the other hand, plants affected by powdery mildew, rust or blackspot are harmless)
charcoal
ashes
On the other hand, there are no problems with lawn clippings to a limited extent, leaves, tree clippings, potting soil, remains of bedding and balcony plants or sawdust or wood chips from untreated wood.
But other, unexpected things are also allowed on the compost.
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