Comments on: Wood https://www.compostthis.co.uk/wood The easy to use composting guide Mon, 14 Nov 2022 13:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Richard https://www.compostthis.co.uk/wood#comment-1459624 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:47:34 +0000 http://www.compostthis.co.uk/wood#comment-1459624 I’m a wood turner and I’d love to compost woodshavings, but composting wood is a wide subject. Can you compost Laburnam, Iroko or Walnut?
Would the compost present an issue when put round vegetables?

I’m told Walnut contains a compound called Juglone which is extremely toxic. A friend is an Arboriculturist, has worked in the industry for 20 years and now lectures on it at a college, he ALWAYS makes me dispose of walnut shavings. I never use them in the garden or compost, if you read up on neutralizing juglone it has been known to take many years.

]]> By: Michael https://www.compostthis.co.uk/wood#comment-1371489 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:44:27 +0000 http://www.compostthis.co.uk/wood#comment-1371489 Mdf and the like are almost always bonded simply with urea formaldehyde, which is actually also a fertilizer. The mdf i use is 90% cellulose fiber, 7-9% resin, and 1% paraffin wax (petrol product, but as benign as they get). There are tons ofreasons to avoid mdf, but i dontthink composting shouldbe on that list.

]]> By: Maureen Edwin https://www.compostthis.co.uk/wood#comment-1259511 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 14:22:22 +0000 http://www.compostthis.co.uk/wood#comment-1259511 an I compost iroko wood shavings please?

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