slug and pest eggs in compost?

**rustylady** · 22-12-2012, 05:49 PM

"pests" and slugs do no harm in a compost heap. Either add your leaves to your compost heap, or put them in strong bags. They'll make superb leaf mould.

**arpoet** · 22-12-2012, 08:26 PM

If in Doubt, steam them before adding to the compost heap

**Two_Sheds** · 23-12-2012, 09:50 AM

Your compost bin won't be heating up in the winter. It's too cold

Leaves will slow down your compost even further: they have a different kind of decomposition, they don't heat up, and they're unlikely to have slug eggs in them (slugs lay under soil, not on leaves).

As Rusty says, slugs aren't a pest inside the compost anyway: being detritivores, they're actually beneficial to the process.

I think AR Poet is pulling your leg about the steam.
If he's not, I wouldn't steam or heat the leaves, because that would kill the very bacteria that are needed to decompose the leaves.

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