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Posted by Roberta Bagshaw on May 9, 2006, 6:40 am
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>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I was going through my personal "store" of vitamins & minerals etc., and
>> discarding those which were well & truly out of date. It occurred to me
>> that rather than disposing of these wastefully, they may very well be
>> beneficial to my compost.
>>
>> My thoughts were that perhaps the best way to deal with it is to dissolve
>> the pills, capsules and powders, and then pouring the liquid into the
>> tumbler.
>>
>> Any ideas on this?..... could this be harmful?
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> I can't see it will be too beneficial to your compost roberta. If you put
> a
> balanced mix in your compost you will end up with a balanced result with
> the
> correct mineral intact. If you have a big compost heap putting small
> amount
> of minerals should not overload it whereas if you have a small compost
> heap
> you may, and a guess here only, unbalanced the mix with too many health
> suppliments. It is not probably a good idea to put medicines in the
> compost
> if you have any of them. Dispose of them according to any label on the
> bottle/box. It also depends on what you are going to use the compost for?
> Growing vegetables, as a soil conditioner for lawn, growing roses, as a
> mulch around trees etc. As a general mulch around big trees for instance I
> doubt a small amount of health supplements in your compost will make too
> much difference to them.
>
> rob
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