[sclarke624]

I have often seen that victorian gardeners and, probably others, put their kitchen scraps straight into the bed, instead of a compost bin.  So I have new high rise beds and I put scraps in, I now have potatoes growing in them from peelings...................not what I intended at all.  Think I will stick to banana skins in future.

[penance]

I nuke all our spud peeling now before they go in the compost, got very fed up of pullin tiny spud plants out the plot..

[sclarke624]

How do you nuke,microwave them, and then are they of any nutrient value after nuking to the soil i mean not to me.

[penance]

Um, put them in microwave and turn on.
1 minute is enough.

Dont care about lose of nutrient (cant tell you anyway, im not a laboratory), just dont want them growing.

[PennyS]

I dilligently dug my bean trench and put veg scraps in the bottom.... didn't think about potatoes.  I have volunteers coming up through my runner beans