Topic: How to compost perennial weeds?

[kippers garden]

I started my allotment 4 years ago and when i start i piled all my perennial weeds in a massive compost bin made of 8 pallets (my allotment was very overgrown).  I covered it and now i have beautiful compost but it obviously took up a lot of room.

For the past two years i have been taking bag after bag of perennial weeds to the tip (so they can compost them) but this seems such a waste.  How do other people get round this? (I tend to have lots of dandylions and couch grass thanks to my neighbour who hardly ever visits).

Can i use my black 'darlek' bin just for perennial weeds?

[thifasmom]

i dont see why not :)

[terrier]

If you've got a tub big enough, half fill i with water and 'drown' the weeds (as long as they havn't gone to seed). After a couple of months, compost the solids and use the water as a plant feed.

[tonybloke]

room is usually not an issue on allotments! go for the large compost heaps, they generate enough heat to kill any weeds!! ;)

[Robert_Brenchley]

If the compost takes up too much room, dig some of it in. Most of us deal with that one by recycling the stuff, it's what it's for.

[kt.]

I have always just dried my perennial weeds and burnt them.

[artichoke]

Sorry about the repetition but I tie them up in heavy old plastic sacks and stack them out of the way in a hedge for a couple of years. Then dig them back in as compost. Makes me feel better about horrible couch grass, creeping buttercups, docks, dandelions, nettles etc etc etc.

[Multiveg]

If you've got a tub big enough, half fill i with water and 'drown' the weeds (as long as they havn't gone to seed). After a couple of months, compost the solids and use the water as a plant feed.

Pegs!!!! Be prepared for some serious aroma.....

[redimp]

Sorry about the repetition but I tie them up in heavy old plastic sacks and stack them out of the way in a hedge for a couple of years. Then dig them back in as compost. Makes me feel better about horrible couch grass, creeping buttercups, docks, dandelions, nettles etc etc etc.

I do that too but have run out of old compost bags (inside out) and am now resorting to black rubble sacks (the tough ones)

[flytrapman]

I use the same method as terrier
you get free plant food as a bonus