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Composting on Lawn/Weeds: Attn Erin

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Hi, composting friends---

I'd heard that if you're going to garden in a weedy place, or if you're got
a lawn and you want to start gardening there next year, you can buy some of
that "hot compost starter" or "compost accelerant" or whatever they call
it. You spread it right on top of the lawn or the weed patch, then puit
down about 8 layuers of newsprint (taking care that you use only the porous
cheap newsprint paper, and not the full-color slick-paper which is used for
advertising inserts and magazine-type sections, and which contained lead
paints which shold not be composted), and then all your leagves and grass
clippings, really pile it on there, and then more of trhe "accelerant"
mixed especially with the leaves.

This then cooks all fall and winter; and by spring, all the grass and
weeds, roots seeds and all, have rotted away and youhave a nice planting
bed.

I'm going to try that this year.  Has anybody ever done it?  Does it work?

Julianne
Zone 6/7 - Which reminds me, is there somewhere I can send away to get a
"revised" and rather detailed Zone Map? I'm in the Watauga Watershed just
west of the Southern Appalachians, and I know the "real" zone would vary by
altitude. I'm wondering if I'm low enought to be a "real" Zone 7.


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