TD>    I don't know.  All that I can say is that after 3 years in one
  >of my compost piles everything was broken down except for the peanut
  >shells and some bigger root chuncks.
When we turn our gardens over in the spring, we always run into peanuts 
in the shell that have been deposited there in the fall by squirrels.  
The shell may be a bit soft, but it is no way decayed. Interesting, no?
                           Doris Dignard
                        ddignard@idirect.com
                    doris.dignard@capcanada.com
                      
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1NC1994 Date: 01/19/98
From: TIMOTHY DUEHRING                                      Time: 08:33am
\/To: DORIS DIGNARD                                       (Read 2 times)
Subj: R: Peanut shells

Doris,

DD>When we turn our gardens over in the spring, we always run into peanuts 
DD>in the shell that have been deposited there in the fall by squirrels.  
DD>The shell may be a bit soft, but it is no way decayed. Interesting, no?

    I find them this way also.  Then there are all of the holes in the lawn 
where they buried them in the fall and tried to dig up in the winter and 
spring.
    
    
Timothy Duehring
tduehrin@execpc.com
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FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F1N00001 Date: 01/17/98
From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES                                   Time: 09:49am
\/To: DON DODSON                                          (Read 2 times)
Subj: Compost

DD>just left them for nature to handle.  This is normally called
DD>procrastination as I actually was going to mulch around my plants with
DD>them.  After about three years, I bit the bullet and and dug into the
Time is the gardener's willing servant and retaliatory master.
My biggest problem is letting nature take its course. The more I 
fiddle, the worse things get. 
I try (sometimes succesfully) to worry now about the inanmimate 
objects. For example, "painting the wicker baskets" or "hanging 
the chains". If it involves anything to do with living matter, 
plants, soil etc, my best bet is to "put it off until tomorrow".
Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com    www.interlog.com/~cgreaves
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