COMPOST HEAPS
PART 3
Continuing my blog on garden compost heaps, problems can develop
with family members and neighbours.
It is possible that a brown rat may appear,
especially foraging for kitchen scraps that form
part of the compost heap. This is quite normal,
as rats are wild animals, equal but different to all
other animals, living exactly where they ought to
be. For many this perspective is unacceptable as
brown rats are viewed as vermin or dislikeable
animals. It is because they have been associated
with the bubonic plague, despite the black rat
being the likely animal.
One rather ironic situation occurred some time
ago when I was eating mushrooms and threw
out some soggy and inedible ones, I spotted
other mushrooms on the compost heap. The
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Many people think that fungi are plants, because
of their apparent similarities. Yet they are
classified as a completely different life form or
kingdom. Infact, fungi are more closely related
to animals as they evolved
directly from the animal
kingdom millions of
years ago, when
they were very
simple organisms.
However, eons of
evolution have made
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penny dropped that for some people, fungi, both
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