I get hundreds of kilos of fish waste,normally anadromous or game-fish offal,each year,grown some really nice plants on it over the years but I normally just drop a few heads or tails and entrails into the bottom of a hole,is there a better way,any of you grown in liquidised offal for example?

No

dunno, we just dig trenches up the allotment and fill the bottom with frames, heads and guts...

It works. We've done sweetcorn side by side comparison grow. No comparison.

There may be more efficient ways, but I don't fancy trying to liquidise whole fish boxes full of waste in a domestic liquidiser.

Monk...x

Hey Bad Penny... Try and get hold of Ripthedrift...

He seems to know a LOT about composting... especially fish I think.

What sort of fish are you composting Mono?Salt or fresh(because there is a salinity problem so I have been told )How much better were the plants?I have about 300kg of frozen trout at the minute for next year I will ask him stone,thanks,invaluable input Rats

Saltwater, the salinity doesn't bother our sweetcorn....we'd never even considered it might be a problem....

Cod, ling, pollack, whiting make up the bulk of it, also rays, bass, mackerel, plaice, gurnard....whatever we catch really....we dig it in a few stone at a time...the sweetcorn grow was mainly over ling, and we dug it into a patch that was pretty barren fertility wise....the sweetcorn on the barren ground are tiny, don't even reach up 3ft, the ones over the ling are over 6ft, with 2 good solid cobs on each plant, it's a very clear difference.

We did have a big cannabis plant growing over a patch of ling too, but I chopped it a couple of weeks ago for cuttings, just didn't want me home grow security compromised. There were NO problems with the canna plant growing in the ling, so no salinity problem there either I wouldn't have thought.

There is NOTHING SCIENTIFIC in our methods, we just dig it in where there's space for a trench, then plant some time later.....

Monk...x

Thanks BP

Thanks Mono,I used to love pulling Ling in off the wrecks out if Whitby,great fish,glad theres no salinity issues,looks like I need to get a liquidiser as I have a pile of kelp and bladderwrack also fermenting away,its going to be a smelly soupy sludge but its all worth it if your results are to go by

I have to liquidise it Mono,I am going to try and drill it in with a post hole auger,works with blood and bone and pelleted chicken-manure,I think it should work with chowder

Hmmmm, I see, sure the results will be great....Yeah I chuck seaweed in too if I been out digging worms, or trying to collect peelers, but never have more than a carrier bag of weed at a time....again, I don't liquidise, but I see why you need to.....Couldn't really get away with a top dressing of dead fish,

Monk...x

Not really,the fox would have them away,thats why I am augering it in november-ish time to give the plots time to lose their allure to passing predators,I was thinking of tilling it in with a rotorvator but its kind of difficult to get one over a 12 foot steel fence I am sure the results will be worth it however