Dubia frass?

[Stl_Greaser]

Has anyone ever used the frass cleaned from your bins for fertilizer in your gardens? I have been saving all of the frass cleaned out of my bins to use in my vegetable garden this coming spring. Just wondering if anybody else has tried this and how it worked out for them.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

It sounds like a good experiment. There is a company that markets cricket poo fertilizer as an outstanding organic solution. I haven't tried any poo fertilizers but thinking about it

 

[Dog Shrink]

We use the pellets from our rabbitry in our veggie gardens and all I can say is screw miracle grow... poo is the way to go. The only thing I noticed was it tended to bring more cats around the house but I don't think you'd have that problem using roach poo BUT I would worry about what pest insects it could bring, but on the other hand what pest insects could it deter as well.

I also use to compost my dog poo (and with 5 dogs it was a lot of poo) with dried leaves, grass clippings and some straw to make a good compost for our flower beds too (since the rabbit poo seemed to burn the plants a little bit. A little too intense for sensitive flowers). You can take the "compost" you make to a local college and they can do a test on it to see what your levels are as far as things like sulpher,nitrogen etc. to make sure it won't burn your plants which would be my only concern. I've seen the cricket poo one on "Dirty Jobs" and they do mix it with plant matter as well so be prepared to have to compost.

 

[Stl_Greaser]

I was just planning on working it into the soil about around the end of November or so. I was not planning on taking the time to compost it.

 

[Dog Shrink]

No I understand that, but even worked into the soil and having half the yearr to decompose that way might still bring your nitrogen/phospherous/sulpher levels too high for your plants. I would suggest maybe burning a fire and mixing some of the ash in the ground with it to help neutralize some of that.

 

[Stl_Greaser]

Yeah, I always keep all of the ash from the BBQ, outdoor pit and the fireplace for the garden also.

 

[Dog Shrink]

Cool. If you think when it comes to planting season your soil might be too rich, I know that the colleges will test it pretty cheap and sometimes free. There are some other places that will too I usually ask the fish and game people where to go.

 

[T-ReXx]

I use roach frass to fertilize indoor plants that I grow out for use in planted terrariums and I also will use a bit to give new plants planted in the tanks a boost when I first put them in. It works wonders. I think it would work quite well as an outdoor fertilizer. I wouldn't worry to much about the issues associated with rabbit droppings, insect digestion is very different from that of mammals.