What should you not compost at home?
Don’t add meat scraps, bones, grease, whole eggs, or dairy products to the compost pile because they decompose slowly, cause odors, and can attract rodents. Don’t add pet feces or spent cat liter to the compost pile. Don’t add diseased plant material or weeds that have gone to seed. However, a compost bin can occasionally attract unwanted insects and wildlife pests like cockroaches, spiders, and houseflies, or rodents like mice or rats. If you already have pests, you may decide you want to start over by cleaning out the bin and using some more effective composting practices.Which compost ingredients attract rats? Any food scraps can potentially attract rats to compost bins. Cooked food, potato peels, egg shells and particularly pungent ingredients like meat, fish or dairy, however, are particularly appealing to rats and are most likely to attract them.
What is the laziest way to compost?
Chuck it all on a heap and forget about it If you chuck everything in a pile and add to it when you have waste, you’ll get compost eventually. You do want to avoid adding anything smelly if you care about getting pests. Even if you bury it, your pile will likely not get hot. Compost-Friendly Pests Flies, termites and beetles are attracted to the smell of decay, and they, in turn, will attract larger predatory critters to the pile.