You can put some sort of container under the drainage holes, and take the liquid away to use to fertilize plants. Dilute it first; it can be too concentrated for some plants!
Good compost contains both nitrogenous stuff (leaves, fruits, flowers - the 'soft' parts of plants) and carboniferous stuff (sawdust, paper trash, small sticks, chopped up bigger sticks, nutshells: the 'hard' bits of plants). You can add ground eggshell, too.
You can add meat, blood, bone, milk etc; but (a) that might attract unwanted carnivores, and (b) it takes a while for that to compost down to something you'd actually want to touch! Ground up meats, including organ meats, can be added and stirred in without causing those problems: but only in small amounts relative to the amount of compost. And give the heap time to 'digest' it before adding more.
You can also add the contents of a litter tray, birdcage tray, or other pet doings: the urine is nitrogenous, so make sure the litter itself is carboniferous. The kind of litter (or piddle pad) made of recycled paper is perfect as carboniferous content.
Note that clay litters and some of the synthetic litters will affect the resultant compost-loam, and may make it turn out badly. Clay litters, for example, will produce a clay-loam blend, not a true loam.
What you're trying to produce as the output is loam: if you've ever been in a rainforest and felt the first five or ten centimetres of stuff under your boots, that's a particularly rich kind of loam. It's water and leaves and sticks and insects and worm-poo-soil and it smells like ... I don't know how to put it. It smells like both rich-life-green and death-rot-returntosoil. At the same time.
If you've ever forgotten about potatos in the cupboard until they start to rot, you'll know the death-rot aspect of the smell. And the rich-life-green aspect is .. is the ground after a long soaking rain, when the grass is growing and the world is full of life.
A good loam, to me, smells like both of those mixed together. More of the life smell than the rot smell; but without the rot smell, you wouldn't have broken-down loam ready for plant roots to take-up the nutrients. You'd just have a bunch of too-large chunks of plant matter.
Good compost contains both nitrogenous stuff (leaves, fruits, flowers - the 'soft' parts of plants) and carboniferous stuff (sawdust, paper trash, small sticks, chopped up bigger sticks, nutshells: the 'hard' bits of plants). You can add ground eggshell, too.
You can add meat, blood, bone, milk etc; but (a) that might attract unwanted carnivores, and (b) it takes a while for that to compost down to something you'd actually want to touch! Ground up meats, including organ meats, can be added and stirred in without causing those problems: but only in small amounts relative to the amount of compost. And give the heap time to 'digest' it before adding more.
You can also add the contents of a litter tray, birdcage tray, or other pet doings: the urine is nitrogenous, so make sure the litter itself is carboniferous. The kind of litter (or piddle pad) made of recycled paper is perfect as carboniferous content.
Note that clay litters and some of the synthetic litters will affect the resultant compost-loam, and may make it turn out badly. Clay litters, for example, will produce a clay-loam blend, not a true loam.
What you're trying to produce as the output is loam: if you've ever been in a rainforest and felt the first five or ten centimetres of stuff under your boots, that's a particularly rich kind of loam. It's water and leaves and sticks and insects and worm-poo-soil and it smells like ... I don't know how to put it. It smells like both rich-life-green and death-rot-returntosoil. At the same time.
If you've ever forgotten about potatos in the cupboard until they start to rot, you'll know the death-rot aspect of the smell. And the rich-life-green aspect is .. is the ground after a long soaking rain, when the grass is growing and the world is full of life.
A good loam, to me, smells like both of those mixed together. More of the life smell than the rot smell; but without the rot smell, you wouldn't have broken-down loam ready for plant roots to take-up the nutrients. You'd just have a bunch of too-large chunks of plant matter.
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