Sure, why not? I feed mine to the hens, but if you don't have little feathered garbage cans like mine, cooked veggies add good stuff to the compost pile.

I always put mine in the worm bin, and the worms appreciate the soft stuff that breaks down fast so they can be real pigs. I'm so jealous of you, marlingardener, with your hens. I grew up with a yard full of my mother's chickens and always enjoyed them, plus the fresh eggs and the Sunday chicken and noodles. My that was a long time ago and far away from here. steve

Steve,
Chicken and noodles? Oh, no, my ladies are strictly egg layers. We will have geriatric hens with tiny little walkers and hearing aids. The fresh eggs are a treat though. The way they are laying, I wish I could send you some!

As a general rule of thumb if you can eat it you can compost it. There is no reason why cooked vegetables could not be composted, we eat that stuff so if it were to be somehow harmful to the compost then it would be harmful to us also.
Now optimal would be to not have any cooked vegetables left that would need to be composted.

Thanks y'all. I haven't heard of a worm bin ... i think I'll need to research that!

Lo that the hubs would let me have chickens, although our pups would probably love them for dinner one day.

Now i don't have to just discard the veggies that have been spent by being boiled for 3 hours in my stock. If i ate then it'd be like eating ... well vegetable compost ... uh ...

Check out the vermicomposting forum here at garden web for more on worm boxes

I would have no problem with adding cooked veggies to compost but my Lab likes to compost them in a different way(:

I boil potato peels (we eat unpeeled potatoes only from our garden), they will not compost without it.

I add cooked food to my pile as long as there is no butter, oil, dressing, etc added to the food. Often I throw in whole baked potatoes that are leftover from dinner. I also throw in cooked sweet potato peelings.

why no oil or dressing? it breaks down in the process too.

I thought that as long as you weren't dumping quarts of oil in at a time it was ok. Cuz think about it, most of the oils come directly from seeds such as canola, sunflower, etc.

I've never had a problem w/ uncooked potato peeling either.

oh yeah, are we still not supposed to compost bread??? haha

'they will not compost without it' briergardener are you seriously suggesting that potato peel won't rot unless you boil it? I wonder why I'm not wading through decades of potato peelings in my garden.

The strange notions of what cannot go into a compost pile always amaze me.

A good rule of thumb: if I can eat it, so can my compost pile.

Hm, are you people saying that your potato peels are rotting raw?
Well, most of time i just dig in garden kitchen leftovers and let warms do the job. But i found that warms don't like onion and potatoes peels and very often i ended with potato plants growing from peels.
So, now i boil peels a little bit before i throw them in the garden.

I put cooked AND uncooked potatos and peelings in the pile,,and everything breaks down just fine. I do not put BREAD in my pile. I will never put bread in any compost pile. The thought of it makes my sick. I just can't do it. I put mostly grass clippings, shredded leaves, coffee grounds, veggie and fruit scrapps and peelings, egg shells. They all work together just fine. I also put chicken litter from the coop once in a while. I find the shavings take along time to break down, so I don't put too many of those in at one time.

So many people on here are grossed out by decomposing bread! lol. This amazes me, as there have been talks of composting hair, nail clippings, blood, urine, manure, you name it. I don't compost bread simply because I don't want to attract the critters. Bread doesn't bother me so much, but I am totally grossed out by my veggies growing in pee soil! haha

I would strongly suspect that flowersnhens is someone that we already know...

Hopefully joepy, becuase if not, two people is almost an organization, and three would be a movement. :-o

* Posted by joepyeweed 5b IL (My Page) on
Wed, Feb 3, 10 at 10:17
The strange notions of what cannot go into a compost pile always amaze me.




As a freshman I was taught in my required communication class to always include some "don't"s among a list of "do"s and it "sell" better. I rather suspect that the mentions of what cannot go into a compost pile are recitations (or perhaps literal copy/paste) from sources originally written to "sell".