quickie question -composting

[Super.Niki]

Can I compost mussel shells? Cooking them for dinner tonight and have no idea!

cheers guys (and gals!)
Nicole
xx

[Wombat]

Hey Nic!

It will take a loooooooooong time. It will work better if you crush them or burn them, or burn them then crush them and distribute them through the pile.

Nev

[Jack]

Gidday

Or crush em and throw em straight on the garden.

[Thurston Garden]

Aha, my theory is that anything that lived can be composted, but as Nev said, they are likely to take a loooooooooong time!

[possum]

we love mussels and so get a lot of shells, we have a long gravel driveway so chuck them down on it and drive over them.

[Muddypause]

I wonder if crushed mussel shells would act as a slug deterrent in the way that crushed eggshells can. Might last a bit longer, too.

[ina]

On the other hand, if you compost them whole, some geologist might make an exciting find in a few million years... Proof at last: mussels lived in central Hertfordshire!

[Wombat]

On the other hand, if you compost them whole, some geologist might make an exciting find in a few million years... Proof at last: mussels lived in central Hertfordshire!

[hedgewitch]

Adding sea shells to your compost will add important calcium carbonate to your mix, just make sure they are crushed up really small, which is relatively easy to do anyway.