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gray1720

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Re: hot bin
« Reply #20 on: July 23, 2014, 10:29:12 »
If it really gets to 70C, the hotbin should kill just about anything, bindweed included.

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Re: hot bin
« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2014, 14:39:36 »
I've just managed to get hold of a secondhand one for the price of 2 luggage straps (the cam straps were missing) and am looking forward to filling it later this evening with the fresh manure we get delivered to site. Am very much hoping I will have a lot of rotted manure to add to the beds later this year after the brassica beds have been limed.

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Re: hot bin
« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2014, 15:04:09 »
Thinking about it, I've composted bindweed in a sack of fresh chicken manure before,  so it must be possible.

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Re: hot bin
« Reply #23 on: July 26, 2014, 11:46:22 »
I compost it in an ordinary bin. The only time anything survived was my first year on the plot, when I was digging up roots the size of hawsers. They were so weakened when they came out that they were easily dealt with.

 

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