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We put any apple skins in the pot with water, a little cinnamon and some cloves for fragrance. We'll sometimes add orange rinds or throw them in the fire.
I'll also sometimes stick a few whole cloves in pieces of orange rind and add them to an edible display of oranges, lemons, greenery and cones from the yard.
I never did either until my sister came up with this ingenious idea after new construction nearby caused field mice to temporarily relocate onto her properly. Although our region isn't riddled with rodents and cockroaches like other areas of the country, it's the most sanitary way to maintain household garbage.
My son currently lives where there is no garbage pickup. Residents take garbage to the dump themselves. It costs $2 per bag, regardless of size. If a couple of guys sharing an apartment don't fill up a bag every few weeks (recycling is huge and mandatory there), that's a lot of stink. Nobody wants to haul old stinky garbage in their vehicles, and nobody is going to pay $2 per day to throw away food scraps that are minimal enough to fit into a ziplock sandwhich bag. Add to it that they live in an extremely rural area where field mice can become an issue in old farmhouses, it becomes necessary to freeze food garbage even in areas of the country with frigidly cold winter temperatures.
If your garbage is attracting rodents in a day or two's time, there's a problem other than throwing food away.
That's not true. If it's there for two days, it's there all the time. As soon as you throw out your food garbage, new food garbage is replacing it. That's a constant food source and the very thing that attracts rodents.
It's true that some type of other event brings rodents to a home, such as overcrowding in sewers, new construction nearby, neighbors suddenly evicting their rodents and the rodents needing to find a new food source, a colony growing so big it needs to spread out to look for a new food source. If a house isn't inviting with a food source, rodents won't come to your house.
You can go 30 years without having rodents visit, but that doesn't mean they might not come someday. That's why it's important to properly manage food waste.
If you twist tie a plastic bag, can some smell get out of it anyway? Or would it make sense to leave it twist tied till you have time to take it to the dumpster?
Trust me, flies can get into the tiniest little space! I live in a house so no Dumpster, just a trash can. Even if the flies can't get in, it will start smelling in summer. Also raccoons and other animals are very adept at tipping over and getting into sealed trash cans.
So between my three dogs in the house, and wild/stray critters outside, potentially stinky or dangerous (eg cooked bones) goes in a bag in my freezer until trash day.
That's not true. If it's there for two days, it's there all the time. As soon as you throw out your food garbage, new food garbage is replacing it. That's a constant food source and the very thing that attracts rodents.
It's true that some type of other event brings rodents to a home, such as overcrowding in sewers, new construction nearby, neighbors suddenly evicting their rodents and the rodents needing to find a new food source, a colony growing so big it needs to spread out to look for a new food source. If a house isn't inviting with a food source, rodents won't come to your house.
You can go 30 years without having rodents visit, but that doesn't mean they might not come someday. That's why it's important to properly manage food waste.
Oh I hadn't even thought about the rodent issue! Yet another excellent reason to freeze trash, or somehow secure and seal it. I have a small colony of (spayed and neutered) feral cats living adjacent to my house and they pretty well solve the mouse problem.
People in more rural areas than me have wood and wire enclosures for their trash cans, so they can leave them out overnight for morning pick-up without worrying about animals getting into the trash.
I put everything down the disposal potatoe peels pineapple rinds chicken bones turkey bones everything pumkin rinds but then again I might have a stronger unit than you do and I had my pipes sized bigger when I built my house to prevent backups to make sure the pipes can handle the waste as well as I had em use pvc piping as well
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potatoe peels pineapple rinds chicken bones turkey bones everything pumkin rinds but then again I might have a stronger unit than you do and I had my pipes sized bigger when I built my house to prevent backups to make sure the pipes can handle the waste as well as I had em use pvc piping as well
