compost the shells?
gdabber
following a shrimp feast at my house. I'm remembering from somewhere
that these shells are good for the garden...should they be composted or
just ground up and side dressed around the plants?
Of course, I could just be a ninny, dreaming up this use for the shells.
Perhaps they in fact belong in the trash. Any thoughts out there????
madgard
you BETCHA you compost them puppies, but make sure you bury them deep in
yer pile or the word will go out to every scrounging cat and raccoon
within miles. I compost all my goodies like that, my husband has given
up getting embarrised at the chinese restaurant where i eat a pile of
muscles and ask for a box to take home the "garbage" and when we go to
the all you can eat seafood buffet in the next town on Friday night
sometimes, I take the huge pile of shrimp shells from all the boiled
shrimp I consume.....no, compost them. Takes about a year in a good
pile, less if you turn yours, but makes wonderful rich compost. happy
composting to you!! (and no, yer not a ninny, why send perfectly
wonderful stuff to the landfill, when you can benefit from it more?? )
We won't talk about my leaf bag scroungine and gathering i've done in
the past and still do, or the boxes of leaves and peelings and egg
shells I took home for almost 8 years working in the school
cafeteria.....(I miss that, very much) Can you imagine if all the
restaurants just had containers strictly for the vegetable matter, egg
shells, coffee grounds, tea bags and seafood shells each day to be
picked up and taken to community composters? And then the city and
neighborhoods would donate leaves and grass clippings, and add to that,
and people could come back and get truck loads of finished compost for
free if they donated or maybe helped with the management of it? Or is
the cities had wood chip piles for all the chipped limbs and such for
free for the taking? I gotta stop, I'm getting carried away, I've been
composting now for over 20 years and it never stops with me. I have
ingrained it so well in my family, my husband who is now out on the road
finds himself looking for the can to dump the grounds into when he has a
coffee pot in his motel room, as does my oldest son. He said he drove
the last two roomates nuts with his "gathering of compostable things"
everyday in a bowl and taking outside to the yard and putting into a
hole on his way to work.... :) madgardener
Nancy Milliagn
right in front of you (name escapes me) we have the chef sautee tails in some
soy sauce and we eat them like chips. They are pretty good!
Nancy M.
In article <3704D2D8...@worldnet.att.net>, Gda...@worldnet.att.net
says...
m&v
them if you have a small backyard.
On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 08:23:21 -0600, gdabber <Gda...@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
Kim Williams
either composted or thrown on the top of the garden, it doesn't really matter. I
suggest composting them - and that will keep the cat out of them too.
Kim Williams
Nancy Milliagn wrote:
> Eat em! :) Whenever I go out for Japanese food and where they cook the stuff
> right in front of you (name escapes me) we have the chef sautee tails in some
> soy sauce and we eat them like chips. They are pretty good!
>
> Nancy M.
>
> In article <3704D2D8...@worldnet.att.net>, Gda...@worldnet.att.net
> says...
> >