Composting

[busylizzy]

Hi All Growers

Got my lovely composter and Ill be honest have not noticed the little flies in other years because it was in a different place in the garden but I moved it closer to my house. It happens to be near my raspberries now.

Does any one know if those little flies eat your leaves on your raspberries or is that something else attacking them. My raspberries have little holes in the leaves which they did not last year

And before you ask I do know about the rat problems with composters but mine is from Link A Bord and has a rat floor so I don't think having it near the house is going to be a problem.....Just don't want to lose my raspberries !!!

Any one know ?

Ta Very Much Busylizzy

[rustylady]

Flies don't eat leaves, raspberry or otherwise. Caterpillars do though.

[Two_Sheds]

You don't need to have those little flies in your compost heap. Keep the moist peelings covered with something (grass clippings, straw etc) to stop them laying eggs. The easiest way is to wrap your kitchen peelings in a sheet of newspaper, making a little flyproof parcel

[northepaul]

We have that problem, but then if we have too drier compost, we get rats...so its the devil or the deep for us.