--Maureen

Yes.

This kind person does.

I have enough stuff to throw in my pile. I think I'll skip the bread. Planarians creep me out and so does soggy bread.

Fruit, veggies, cut grass, shredded paper, whatever else I fancy and dead brown things (excluding bread)are all that I think Ill compost. I wish I never googled planarian

I stopped driving and I ride my bike and take the bus everywhere. I compost almost everything. I recycle almost everything I use. If a few pieces of bread slip through my mass effort to recycle, Im not worried. And that is not the same thing as what other people say. If someone else who does not do as much as I and we do were to say this I would have a problem. Im really not worried about it.

Put the bread in the compost. Don't mention it to annpat. All will be well.

Some of comments I read on here sound like chefs trying to perfect a recipe... a measured dash of this, a precise dash of that, add 2 Tbs water, simmer on low, stirring often... It's a pile or bin of rotting organic matter, not a tureen of jambalaya. Let it rot and quit worrying about minutiae like a slice of bread. Turn it every day or ignore it for 6 months, u get the same thing.

I hope everything is ok up in Maine.

A tureen of jambalaya sounds fabulous right now. If we could just invent a composting technique that would do that!

Great idea on the bread baking. I've had piles up to 180, it's hot enough to cook something I bet. But how would you keep the stink out?

Chupacabra is welcome to my pile, as long as he/she doesn't eat too much. He'll have to get approval from the dog first, though...

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who compost bread and those who don't...or is it listen to Neil Diamond???

Will you please leaf me alone.

"Loaf's a breach!"

tj

Those threads kept me up way past my bedtime laughing. I was still afraid to look at the photos, though.

White,Wheat or Rye?

Moldy oldies and mushy love songs.

Yesterday I put some moldy bread in my pile for the very first time as a tribute to this thread :)

Im the kind of guy that will go into a den of knife wielding maniacs with nothing but my bare fists but if you confront me with a caterpillar or a "planarian" type of animal, I run screaming while flailing my arms hysterically saying "GET IT OFF OF ME GET IT OFF OF ME!"

Me? I'm just not a big risk taker. I may be alone in this, but I find planaria really disgusting. For me, it's not worth it.

We had a rain today and I went around picking up all the worms that had come up to breath. I got 18 of them. So I put them a few inches away from the pile and watched them. Eventually them crawled their way to my pile and disappeared underneath. They knew it was a planarian free zone;-)

There are some really dumb composters here (BerryMan comes immediately to mind)---just between you and me---who think that planaria are nothing to snort at. NOTHING TO SNORT AT!!!

Are you kidding me!?
If anyone asks you why Maine is Planaria free, do not feel unabashed (or...feel abashed, whichever works in my favor here) to mention my name.

And I would hate to lift my pile to put an apple core in the center just to have some slimy looking fish creature hiss at me and spit venom in my eyes. Thank god for pitch forks:=)

I once, all too briefly, enjoyed a similar glow.

But then I posted an experience that was too raw, too personal, too soggy. In my horror, I unwittingly exposed Annpat to secondhand sog, and lost the approbation that had warmed the very cockles of my soul.

;-)

Lloyd

P.S. Don't even ask what she does to snowblowers!!

Have you seen the one about the ground up Planaria? Have a sick bag ready and then go to the paragraph on biochemical memory in flat worms. Maybe they could be trained to hate bread?

Seriously!!! That's brilliant! If the scientists could shock the planaria right as they're holding a damp cheerio out to them, it might just possibly solve one of the most troublesome problems that slovenly composters come up against.

(I am not fickle! I've just never met a fresh breeze that I didn't find myself swayed by.)

Reconstructing the history of worm-running (McConnell ran a journal called the Worm Runner's Digest for a while!) can be a bit tricky.

And, of course, I looked up the "Worm Runner's Digest" which is, unfortunately, now out of print. We missed something.

"The Worm Runner's Digest (W.R.D.) was created in 1959 by biologist James V. McConnell after his experiments with memory transfer in planarian worms generated a torrent of mail enquiries[1]. The W.R.D. published both satirical articles, such as A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown, and scientific papers, the most famous of which, Memory transfer through cannibalism in planaria, was a result of McConnell's RNA memory transfer experiments with planarian worms and was later published in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

The title for the W.R.D., McConnell explained, was an extension of the psychological jargon that terms psychologists who work with rats "rat runners" and those who work with insects "bug runners."[2]

Amid complaint that the satirical articles and the scientific publications were not distinguishable, the satirical articles were printed upside down in the back half of the W.R.D. along with a topsy turvy back cover. In 1966, the title was changed to the Journal of Biological Psychology in an effort to make the publication more accessible to the scientific community[2].

Articles from the Worm Runner's Digest have been compiled and printed in a number of anthologies, including Science, Sex, and Sacred Cows and The Worm Re-Turns.

(You're welcome.)

Bwahahahahaa!

/coming soon to a theater near you

Well do I just leave it to mold in the bags?? No because I will have to breath that in when unwrapping it, when I go to use it.

Maybe throw the excess in the woods for critters??? Don't want them hanging out.

Nope just jam it all in the bins as much as I can, then hose it down, then stuff more in and repeat...problem solved.

Anyway, i was digging in a garden bed.. and decided that worms like bread.. so i was double digging the bed, adding in compost, leaf mold, etc... and i just tossed the buns under as well.. before i added back on the top layer of dirt. I even wetted them down, so they would be mush.... but the good of raccoons sniffed them out and would come by every night and proceed to start digging them up. So every day i would come out to having a ton of wholes dug in the newly planted bed.. dirt everywhere.. plant dug up.

This lasted for a week .... and i learned my lesson. :)

Wipes coffee from keyboard...

Lloyd

Thats another reason I dont want planarians in my pile! They eat earthworms! My great great grandfather did not die cursing planarians so I could start feeding them bread and earthworms now!