liquid from cans good to use?
I was wondering if the liquid from say olive cans or other vegetables would be good to put in my worm bin?
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I've been adding the water from draining the tuna cans into mine, and my pile is doing great. I do make sure to add cardboard from tp rolls, used paper towels, the paper towel tube, etc. along with all that liquid. If you get low sodium veggies, the salt shouldn't be an issue, especially if you dilute it first. I was just reading a discussion about this the other day on here, and that seemed to be the general consensus. (search the forum, the post is around here somewhere...) Also, if you steam or boil veggies you can use the water from that, too, either to water your plants or to water the compost.
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Yes, it is a worm bin, I would only add a little bit at a time. So you think even in small doses it would be more hurtful than helpful? Salt does hurt the worms..
It's hard to find information on this subject because when you search for can liquid you get all kinds of stuff about making liquid fertilizer. Also I had a hard time finding out what the liquid actually is, from what I could tell it was just water put in when they can it
It's hard to find information on this subject because when you search for can liquid you get all kinds of stuff about making liquid fertilizer. Also I had a hard time finding out what the liquid actually is, from what I could tell it was just water put in when they can it
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