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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 5:12:25 PM No.2923703
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My compost is breeding roaches and they're coming into my house. My yard is small so I can't just move it further away. Is this inevitable or am I not doing something right?
>throw in food scraps
>throw in some leaves
>dump some water in occasionally
>stir it occasionally
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 5:56:26 PM No.2923714
>>2923703 (OP)
Stir daily
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:40:21 PM No.2923726
>>2923714
ok, I have been pretty lazy about it
Anonymous
6/12/2025, 6:53:15 PM No.2923733
>>2923703 (OP)
You're composting, so you're gardening, so just plant anything roaches hate that you don't. That seems to be mint, first glance, and some other shit.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 7:00:37 PM No.2923734
>>2923733
>mint
>roaches hate
Good idea and I didn't know that, thanks anon. I already have some growing in a different corner, I'll plant it around my compost bin and house too.
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Anonymous
6/12/2025, 7:05:50 PM No.2923736
>>2923734
probably good to look up how quickly your mint species can spread while you're at it, it's about as invasive as bamboo sometimes
Anonymous
6/14/2025, 6:06:22 PM No.2924101
>>2923703 (OP)
Introduce other larve.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:29:18 PM No.2924774
>>2923703 (OP)
Anyone have experience with wild pigs and composting? Would like to start one, but we’re worried about it attracting even more of those fuckers and it getting torn apart.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:46:16 PM No.2924777
>>2924774
Wild pigs eat literally anything and everything. Kill the wild pigs (they are invasive) then maybe consider composting.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 3:56:18 PM No.2924927
>>2924777
>kill the wild pigs
Lol
>they are invasive
Lmao
Thanks, Doolittle.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 6:31:29 PM No.2924964
>>2924774
Use the compost as bait to bring the pigs in, then kill them and add them to the compost pile... Its like an endless compost factory!
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 6:32:37 PM No.2924966
Also what happened to op's image? Why do so many threads on this board get the image deleted?
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 8:50:27 PM No.2924989
>>2924774
maybe a couple hail marries
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 8:35:03 AM No.2925125
>>2924774
>Anyone have experience with wild pigs and composting?
Not really, but they came to visit me ~6 months ago because I had some (a shit ton of) apples here and there that had fell of the tree, and the ones I had collected and thrown in the slope in the back of my plot. Not a single one left afterwards, and they dug up a fair bit of the lawn too. If there's food accessible, they'll go for it. The small Swedish town I live in has an issue with them though, and the local hunters can't keep up, you might be luckier.