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Allotment Stuff => The Basics => Topic started by: Ceri on January 22, 2004, 14:58:46
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I've been thinking about those nasty weeds you really shouldn't put on the compost heap. Instead of burning/binning, could you not dump them in a spare waterbutt until they rot down completely, then use that as a tea tonic, or tip it all on the compost heap as a wetter/activator in the summer? Probably stinky but possible?
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Hi Ceri - yup! No probs - apart from the length of your arms, cos the stink is truly "wonderful"!
But there's not many weeds I do that for - only ground elder and bindweed on my plot. The couch, docks, dandelions, coltsfoot, creeping thistle - I chuck all those straight on the heap.
Sure, some of the root bits regrow when the compost goes back on the bed, but as soon as the "blown-in" weeds are hoed off, so are the ones I've introduced (and when they are very small, too). It's no more work, I don't thnk.
Hmm - but I wouldn't like to be so lazy in a garden, I suspect.
All best - Gavin
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I agree Gavin, except for the couch grass, that and bindweed, I collect and take home for disposal (bonfires are not allowed here). All other weeds go on the compost. I used to worry about spreading weeds through compost but I did a try-out on one veggie bed and I did not notice any more weeds there than in the other beds. So now I use my compost from weeds and all in the whole veggie plot.