Help please with composting

[damnedchilblains]

Can you put raw vegetable peelings straight on to plants?

I'm wanting to recycle my vegetable peelings, I've so much of them. I'm a budding gardener with little experience and I was thinking of starting a compost heap, however, I was told that if I shredded/blended the raw vegetable peels (as in a veg peeling juice type thing), I could just pour them straight on to my plants / growing vegetables. Is this true?

Any advice is welcome

[Wigeon]

I would think that the veg would just rot ontop of your plants. And so you would just get moldering vegetables which might be a bit smelly / unsightly. And to be honest it would be less hassle tipping them onto a compost heap or in a compost bin rather than blending them first!

Have you thought of a wormery?

Womery ideas

And I would do a compost bin rather than a compost heap. Your local council probably supply them at a nice discount (ours does anyway - Hertfordshire).

Happy gardening / composting!

[Wigeon]

PS we have a wormery by the back door(as well as a compost bin at the end of the garden) and the worms are my friends!

[Furball]

I think you might attract alot of vermin if you do this, although I don't know for certain.

You could get a wormery and throw peelings in there. They give worm juice which you decant off and put on your plants

[Wigeon]

Another wormery fan!

[damnedchilblains]

oh yeah I meant compost bin but never heard of a wormery. Thanks I'll look into that.

Yeah don't really fancy the stinky rotting veg all over my garden