Composting & Bees - How To Handle Them
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Our family has been composting for several years, and last year we moved from just a basic pile in the field that we turned to a plastic composting container that we can add to and turn over the course of the year.
Our yield of compost has increased greatly due to the container composting. We got the composters, which as just basic blac plastic, at a local event through our county and they ran us about $20 each. We have two of the compost bins adjacent to our organic strawberry patch.
The only problem we have had so far is that some yellow jackets set up a nest inside the rim of the compost bin. With all the fruits and vegetable rinds and skin that we have for compost, I imagine it is a huge and wonderul feast for them. The bees are only in one of our compost bins, so we are using the other one and have been staying away from the bee one, however now our bin is full and we really need to use the other one.
Does anyone know how we can remove the bees without using pesticides? Being that we grow and compost organic, spraying the bees would be against everything we do from an ecological standpoint. So, does anyone have suggestions? Reply to this
Our family has been composting for several years, and last year we moved from just a basic pile in the field that we turned to a plastic composting container that we can add to and turn over the course of the year.
Our yield of compost has increased greatly due to the container composting. We got the composters, which as just basic blac plastic, at a local event through our county and they ran us about $20 each. We have two of the compost bins adjacent to our organic strawberry patch.
The only problem we have had so far is that some yellow jackets set up a nest inside the rim of the compost bin. With all the fruits and vegetable rinds and skin that we have for compost, I imagine it is a huge and wonderul feast for them. The bees are only in one of our compost bins, so we are using the other one and have been staying away from the bee one, however now our bin is full and we really need to use the other one.
Does anyone know how we can remove the bees without using pesticides? Being that we grow and compost organic, spraying the bees would be against everything we do from an ecological standpoint. So, does anyone have suggestions? Reply to this
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That's not a problem I've heard of, but if you contact the people who run Compost This they may be able to help.
You'll also find that the contents of the other bins shrinks quite rapidly and if you turn it occassionally, you'll be able to put a lot more in there - within a week of getting my first bin, it was full, but a week later there was plenty of space for more cuttings etc as the contents had rotted down.
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why not leave the bees to it, go back to the pile in the field, seems you got a hive.
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