Weird things into compost

[annie8]

Think I’ve started to get a bit obsessed with putting everything I possibly can into my compost bin rather then the bin. Have started putting the dog hair in after I brush him and wondering last night as I cut my nails whether nail clippings would be ok. This may be a risky question, but what’s the weirdest thing you put in your compost?

[Thelma Sanders]

Cat litter!
What Mollycat uses is either a clay or occasionally a wood pellet product - none of the scented posh stuff, so all ok to use. I remove all the 'solids' and add the rest, plus the paper liner to the dalek along with any torn up cardboard and the kitchen peelings. Lovely stuff after a year or 2....

[bario1]

Bob Flowerdew once put a dead deer on his compost heap.

[Guest]

My Dad often used to put pheasant carcasses in - the only time I have ever seen balls of brandling worms and they were great for fishing with but that was years ago.

Also I don't remember it smelling. It was an old coal bunker and he used to leave the top open but covered with carpet. It seemed rather normal at the time

[Snoop Puss]

Phew, I can own up: I put our dead chickens in our dalek. Can't put them in the rubbish, can't bury them or the dogs will dig them up. They don't smell. Never had a problem with rodents (that I know of). I also put pet hair and our hair in there. And pee, of course. That goes without saying.

[DannyK]

My hair cuttings, what little there is of them, and things like credit card statements that would usually be shredded.

[Penellype]

Think I’ve started to get a bit obsessed with putting everything I possibly can into my compost bin rather then the bin. Have started putting the dog hair in after I brush him and wondering last night as I cut my nails whether nail clippings would be ok. This may be a risky question, but what’s the weirdest thing you put in your compost?

Nail clippings are fine - they are made up of the same stuff as hair. Both will take a while to rot down.

I put all my food waste (of which, apart from peelings, there is not a huge amount) in the hotbin, and I wipe out greasy pans etc with kitchen paper and that goes in. The contents of the hoover also go in, but I do seem to have some part nylon carpets (which came with the house) so I find clumps of unrotted fibres in the compost. Potatoes still grow well in it. If I was more organized I would put some of the loo paper (not from poo though) in as well, but I've usually flushed it away before I remember!

I've tried adding a shredded old wool jumper, but even though the label insisted it was "pure new wool" it isn't yet rotted after 2 years, so I haven't done that again.

[Stan79]

Someone in my extended family likes putting teaspoons in the compost!
And my wife's old wallet including old bank cards, etc.
I get big bags of shredded paper from work for the chicken coop so that all goes in with the chicken mess.

[Pepper king]

I pee on mine on a short run when im out in the field ... No sence in wasting it!

[Muddy_Boots]

Having read all of these messages I can only say one word after cringing thinking about what you lot put in your compost, just hope I don't go down to ours and see loads of people relieving themselves into their daleks ......... eeeeewwwwwwww

[SarrissUK]

I used to put the clay based litter tray content onto the compost heap at the allotment, but now I usually use a crystal based litter which isn't suitable. I might go back to a clay based actually, now that I have huge compost bins again.
All of my paper waste goes in there - tissue paper, bills, kitchen roll...
Chicken poo and bedding
Nothing terribly weird I'm afraid!

[Baldy]

Have you got cats then Sarriss or...

I'm currently experimenting with bokashi composting - only a week or two in so early doors. I'm thinking that compostable bags + bokashi grain + somewhere to store might lead to almost everything (vaguely) organic getting composted - probably depends on how anaerobic the bags are...

cat poo
chicken carcasses
dead mice/rats/squirrels

the list is almost endless (potentially)

[MyWifesBrassicas]

I once composted my work shoes

[happyhumph]

Used to empty children's pottys in there (wee only). Old cotton clothes go in as well. Have occasionally found small plastic toys which have ended up in the compost after some enthusiastic game....

[SarrissUK]

Have you got cats then Sarriss or...

haha Yes, four. I personally use a porcelain toilet, not a plastic tray