Rob Morley wrote:

I bought a Bosch garden 1.8kW shredder at B&Q for 130 euro
(about 85 pounds),
and it has been performing very well.

Now I'm wondering if I can add the output to my wormery?
Will it convert within a finite time to compost?

A few years ago I hired a shredder to clear my back garden and it
composted well when mixed with green stuff and grass cuttings, but I'm
not sure how long it took - I tend to make more compost than I use so it
sits there for a year or three.

Thanks for the advice.
I hadn't looked in the wormery for a couple of years,
and was quite surprised when I opened it to see the little beggars
running around, especially as I had been told
to bring the wormery indoors in winter,
which of course I did not do.

So I'll add my shredder output to the bin.

Incidentally, the one thing that has not rotted at all
in the wormery is the outside of tea bags.
Other paper has rotted well, so I guess tea bags
are not normal paper.
Also egg-shells, which we were encouraged to put in,
remain as egg-shells, as one might perhaps have expected ...


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