Composting cat litter?

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Re: Composting cat litter?
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2012, 17:59 »
Yup - there is nothing like the smell of it when just been spread........ :ohmy:

As nearly choked us on the way back from Southall about three weeks ago  :ohmy: :ohmy: :tongue2:

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Re: Composting cat litter?
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2012, 18:02 »
Reaching to close the windows in the car as opposed to the other way!!!!  :tongue2: :ohmy:

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Re: Composting cat litter?
« Reply #17 on: April 09, 2012, 18:03 »
Reaching to close the windows in the car as opposed to the other way!!!!  :tongue2: :ohmy:

Close  :wacko:

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Re: Composting cat litter?
« Reply #18 on: April 09, 2012, 18:38 »
I agree with Yorkie that unless you're experienced with composting cat or human feces, it's safer to avoid them. There's no shortage of other things that are safer to use so why risk it? It takes only one mistake, or one little shortcut, and you compromise someone's health. Considering how many newbies we have on these forums who are so new to gardening, and many people still learning from their mistakes, it's a tricky subject to advocate.

Rabbit poo in cat litter is another matter. Rabbit poo is so safe it can be directly applied to plants with no composting. My resident wild rabbits often prove it  ::)
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Re: Composting cat litter?
« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2012, 20:14 »
The problem with wood-based cat litter for composting is that it's almost all wood.  You'll get a very good crop of a variety of fungi and it will take forever (and then some).

I gave it a try a few years ago just to see if it was one more thing I could avoid sending to landfill.  My intent was to use it for ornamentals and trees only - our cats were already spreading enough of their wastes about I wasn't overly concerned about contamination of those areas.

To get it to compost at any reasonable speed, I suspect you'd need to sacrifice too much of the good stuff that should be going into your regular compost (grass clippings, time and effort to turn).

When I buried my failed experiments, the fungi just kept growing from that spot and probably still are (we've moved since).  The risk of incompletely composting it before use is that you'd encourage fungi you'd rather not have growing amongst your plants.

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Re: Composting cat litter?
« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2012, 11:39 »
Thanks people, I'll defo give it a miss from what I've read.
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Re: Composting cat litter?
« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2012, 12:47 »
I don't fancy using any sort of composted poo except from herbivores, however, I'm sure my veg plot is fertilised from time to time by a certain feline in residence!  :ohmy:


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