Compost tip: grocery stores that have the self-squeeze orange juice machines (like Whole Foods) are happy to give you the trash rinds. They aren’t organic oranges but it is a trash can load of “greens” for your copious “browns” in the Fall. 🍂🍁
I wouldn't consider this as a good idea. I have no use for the chemically treated citrus rinds residue in my soil. At least not in these amounts which can significantly alter the pH of the compost.
Citrus rinds take very long time to decompose and most often only after moulding, which is imho questionable in a good compost.
@AppleWoi@jblue@gardening I wouldn't use citrus peels either. No matter If they were organic or not. That's just not something I'd want in your compost heap.
@derbrumme@AppleWoi@gardening to clarify, I do not have soil in my yard, only clay. Before 3 years of large-scale composting and two US-sized dump trucks of free chip drop from arborists, rainwater would run off the front lawn stand in the storm drain and flood the garage every time there were heavy rains, standing water for 2-3 days. Composting huge amounts, soil guards and planting, only once did the water seep in this year. I gladly take the orange peels.
@jblue@AppleWoi@gardening try it, by no means let us stop you. Everyone's gardening situation ist different and most of us don't know each others context, so we usually have our own gardens in mind when we give advice or offer our opinions.
This is the result of chip drops and trash cans full of orange peels after 1+ year. The first pic is soil that hasn’t received any compost. The second one is more than one year of mass composting. For the front yard, I just scatter orange peels (+others) and put the chip drop overtop. Sometimes animals will dig it up but I kick it back in and cover. Once they start decomposing, they leave it alone.
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