I have about 15 gallons of tree nuts from my front yard in this wheelbarrow. What is the best way to compost it since I know nuts take forever? Should I let them soak in water for awhile? I'm concerned about mosquitoes because of that.
Crushing them seems like it would take forever. And I don't have an easy automated way to do that either.
Burning them is potentially an option? However, I do not have a pit for burning in my smaller yard. Would have to buy a metal one.
What are y'all's thoughts? Should I just have the city composters pick them up?
by YouGotACuteButt
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Yeah i have the same problem every autumn. My only idea so far has been to store them until spring and toss them in the center of a new grass clippings and leaves pile and just let them get cooked.
Haven’t tried that yet.
I’d soak them, with a mosquito dunk added on top. Mosquito dunks are all natural, no risk for your compost, cheap, and one lasts for about 30 days. They are also super effective at killing mosquitoes during the larva stage.
Now you have a great trap that baits the mosquitoes to lay their eggs, kills the larva, plus your acorns are softening up and will decompose fast
Try one of these?
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/groundwork-10-in-x-10-in-18-lb-steel-tamper
The acorns will eventually compost but the caps, never. I screen them out every year
Looks like my yard. Some of my oak trees generate a metric ton of acorns. Hope you aren’t in a rush – The caps do break down – after about three years.
This may sound like a joke, but peeing on them? I have coconut trees in my property, and the dried leaves that fall from them are super hard to compost. But ive been joining them all together and adding all my daily urine together with the other stuff and they are blackening rather quickly now.
As soon as the nitrogen and phosporus soak in them their toughened carbon becomes fuel regardless. I wonder if the same would happen to those seeds. Maybe it would be even better because their hardened carbon exterior would be supplemented by their super high nutritious profile for the microorganisms to feast (once they have the NPK to get it running)
You mean deez nuts?
Nut butter?
Why not leave them for the small animals to eat this winter?
If I put those in my compost piles, the local squirrels would come and take them all.
Put them in your driveway and drive back and forth over them. That’s how my mom used to de-hull black walnuts.
You may need to soak them in pee first
I run mine through a woodchipper and dump them in the pile
My only thought is that you missed a great opportunity to title the post: “Thoughts on deez nuts?”
Feed these to the squirrels and the birds. It’s better use of nuts than making compost. With the amount you have, post on [FreeCycle](https://www.freecycle.org/) and someone will grab them and put them to good use.
Turn them into biochar!
Damn thats a lot of eunuch trees lol