Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle corn cobs?

By: Carol Brown

Carol Brown — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:26:33 +0000

I’ve tried this, works well. To test, I turned the dirt out of a 20′ row for tomatoes, about 10″ deep and placed a single layer of corn cobs in 1/2 of the row. When the plain 1/2 was about 3′ high with blossoms, the cob 1/2 was just over 4′ with many tomatoes about marble size. The cobs act like a sponge holding water and red worms love them. Corn meal in the compost pile draws red worms.
Have put corn cobs and/or meal on the ground near my garden, covered with cardboard or piece of old carpet (keep moist). Lift and pick worms off the ground for fishing bait.

By: sue

sue — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:02:43 +0000

I use corn cobs to start campfires with when they are all dried out, I also feed newer ones to my farm critters.

By: Donna Crisel

Donna Crisel — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:43:59 +0000

How can i recycle flippy discs. Hate to admit it but have tons.

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:30:58 +0000

I am going to use them to make a vegetable stock along with other vegetables to can or preserve. I am going to try a roasted vegetable stock. So I will roast everything in the oven and then start my stock on the stove. Thanks for the ideas above. I run a daycare out of my home. We will definatley be making bird feeders with the rest of them!

By: Shorty

Shorty — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:35:57 +0000

These all sound like great ideas. I think my mom used to tell me that when she was a kid she used to eat the hard inner heart of the cob and that it was very sweet.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:51:55 +0000

Get a couple of Guinea Pigs. They love them: there’ll be nothing left in a couple of hours!

By: joseph alagna

joseph alagna — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:19:07 +0000

The Karankawa Indians of Texas used to use them as toilet paper. Cool or what?

By: the greenth

the greenth — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:27:49 +0000

Let the wild life have the best of them, let them dry out and use them for one of the following:

as a pot pourri ingredient, saw them into segments, stain them with food colour, scent them with essential oils
as a fuel for smoking foods
as an absorbent when ground up in a mincer and mixed with growing media
as charcoal, easy to do but you’ll need a lot even for a home made solution

By: Eliza

Eliza — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:55:05 +0000

You can apparently use them as pot scrubbers. Also, dried, they make good firstarters.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:29:39 +0000

I hear they make good chew toys for dogs

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:58:58 +0000

If you have a kitchen composter or bin, you can also store the cobs there until you are ready to take them to your main (slow process) bin.

Great website, by the way. Keep up the good work.

Tommy

By: Audpicc

Audpicc — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:47:21 +0000

You can cover them with peanut butter, honey and seeds and hang them outside as bird feeders.

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:55:46 +0000

I feed them to my chickens and they eat every bit of corn left on the cobs, then play football with the cob. lol! Eventually it rots down with the rest of the chicken litter into the best compost/fertilizer in the world.