I haven't found them to be a problem. Throw them in.

Oh yea, the cobs left from human consumption of corn on the cob. Throw them in with the husks, they disappear fast.

Thanks for the responses! Those cobs are going down!

Glad to hear it. I'm new to composting, but threw some in yesterday.

I dug a hole, chopped them some with the shovel and buried them in the garden.

:)

I'd chop or shred them first, and bury them in the pile so as not to tempt the raccoons.

I put some in early this summer and they are disintegrating very well. I did chop them up with a cleever a bit, maybe into 3 inch or so pieces. Now when I turn and come across one they crumble in my hand when I squeeze them.

Our store had corn 10 for a dollar so we bought a lot and I froze some. That was a lot of cobs going in and I hardly find any now. I think it might depend on if you get things cooking really good or not. Either way they will break down.

Val

The cobs breakdown fine for me. If you can get the husks, they will heat up like grass clippings. I think the coons like the corn more than the cob.

You can use predator urine to keep the coons away. If you think you are predator enuff, use yourine ;-)

i dumped 500 pounds of rotting seed corn, the husks from over 100 ears, and a bunch of cobs in mine. they disappeared real quick. although the birds got a good bit of the seed corn!

What about the butter used on the corn?

How much do you use? Really?
If you think it's that much don't put cobs in. But I think it will be negligible.

They would have loved you guys at the Aldersgate corn boil. 9000 ears of corn. 9000 cobs to dispose of. Corn Days coming up in DeKalb middle of the month. Thousands upon thousands of cobs going to be left after that.

If you have a Vitamix, you can throw up to 3 cobs (cut into 3 inch pieces) and fill up with 3/4 of the jar with water. It pulverizes the cob in 10 seconds and it can in the compost pile to decompose quickly!

That's a good idea. I kept finding them in my compost so I started breaking them in 3 pieces. If they're still there, I don't really notice them, so that's just as good.

That's odd that anybody is having trouble decomposing corn cobs. In my compost pile, they vanish. They seem to be a favorite food for my microherd.