My purple sprouting broccoli, going to flower after being unpicked for a while, was dug up and dismembered for the compost heap, but some of the spears had become infested with grey aphids. Unwilling to simply discard such a large quantity of compostable materials and reluctant to spray them with home-made insecticides which may or may not be toxic to any microbes and creatures in the bin, I simply buried them in the middle, soaked with a liberal dousing of Personally Issued Secret Stimulant (man-wee, discreetly collected!) and covered with a thick layer of grass clippings. Is there any likelihood that the'll survive this treatment and re-emerge as a plague at some future date, or is it more likely that other bin inhabitants, centipedes and so on, will use them as a handy snack?
The urine will ensure a veritable explosion of microbial activity with a concomitant volcanic rise in temperature, so maybe this will do them in anyhow.
Incidentally, is anyone else willing to admit that they use this free source of compost activator, easily the equal of Garotta? As I understand it, only man-wee will do the trick properly, as the hormones in the female version aren't good for the garden, so it's said.
