You could save them for soup stock. I always have a bag of weird frozen stuff waiting for the next batch of homemade stock. Carrot peelings, funky celery pieces, onion skins, leftover bits of veggies, etc. Boil the flavor out of them and strain the stock. THEN compost!! :-) Deanna

Direct seeding may be ok for some but I've heard of a method of planting in plastic that I am going to try for the larger sweet onions. I've started in the 288 cell trays and after a few trimmings they are easier to handle at transplant time. Most water wheel transplanters plant too far apart but one grower discribed a modification he made to a set of old, hand cultivator wheels by drilling holes around the perimeter and inserting bolts. He then mounted the wheels in his water wheel planter and made two passes on a row of plastic, offset by 8" so he got 4 rows of onions, 8"apart on a row of plastic. Even if you need to have extra people walking along side the planter, popping plugs and filling empty holes you can stich a lot of onions in the ground in a hurry. Then sock the water and nitrogen to them and watch'em grow. For bunching onions I found that the plastic and drip lines wern't all that benificial, but Devrinol between the rows sure makes pulling onions w/o weeds easier. I've heard of prices of $1.50 each for a 4" sweet onion at some markets but I can't see putting he same time into an onion planting as with tomatoes, peppers or eggplant. Maybe direct seeding is more cost efficient in the long run.

Hooray, it's all about moderation. If you're going to dump five oranges into a small bin, yep you'll probably get problems. But the foods themselves are not an issue. For example, say you have a bin on the soggy side. Throw in lots of oranges. They rot and juice pours out, that trickles down into some standing water at the bottom which spreads it everywhere and POW, you've got problems and posts saying never to add citrus. But citrus in reasonable amounts, good aeration and bedding, no problem. In my Inn I see worms on the peels after three days, that's with the food being fozen and a little old VC mixed in with the feeding. Bowbright. As mentioned it depends on the situation. If you've got citrus placed in one corner, the worms just won't work on it until they are ready to be eaten. If say maybe your bin is very wet, then maybe the juices can spread everywhere and then you could get issues. I add lots of sub optimal stuff in my inn (which is more forgiving than a bin), I just make sure it's in one spot and will stay there.

Sounds yummy!