Composting windfalls: are bad apples allowed on the compost?

When late summer approaches, many garden owners feel desperate. The fruit is almost completely ripe at once. By then at the latest, windfalls are added and the meadow resembles a colorful orchard. But much earlier, when unripe apples fall from the tree, many hobby gardeners ask themselves the question: Where can rotten apples and other windfalls be disposed of?

Composting

Compost or use it?

When is fruit ripe for you? compost and is it even allowed to go there? Windfall fruit that lies on the ground is a breeding ground for all kinds of animals that you hardly want to have in the garden. Especially sweet fruits and Co. attract rulers of wasps and other annoying pests. If the fruit has not been lying around for a long time, it can be consumed without hesitation. However, hardly anyone wants to eat rotten fruits, so you should compost them quickly.

Pests

The problem with the mushrooms

Composting is important not only so that it does not attract pests, but also around you

Fungal attack of the soil to prevent. If you still don't want to dispose of rotten apples and the like, you can cook juices, purees and jams from them. If the fruits are not infested with maggots, rotten areas can simply be cut out.

Can apples just stay where they are?

Nature helps to rot fallen fruit, but this is only possible with small amounts. Is the Amount of fruit however too big, the fruits will rot and attract vermin. The workaround is to bury the fruit. But it is necessary that you dig at least half a meter, otherwise the fruits will be dug up again by animals.

compost

Off to the compost

If the compost is created correctly and is well ventilated, the fruit can be disposed of there without any problems. You can safely compost your windfalls with the following tips.

• make different layers
• after a layer of fruit comes sticks, leaves and other things
• use compost accelerators to promote the decomposition process
• turn the compost at least once a year

disposal

How much fruit can be disposed of

Basically you can have unlimited amounts of fruit over the Garden compost dispose of, but you should proceed according to the above shift schedule. If you throw too much fruit in one pile, the pile will no longer be ventilated and mold and fungus will develop. Use that Compost material then to fertilize your plants, you bring fungal spores into the beds and possibly ruin the entire cultivation. The more often you shift the garden compost and ensure that enough air always gets into all layers, the better the quality of the later humus.