Re: Compost and weeds
- Subject: Re: Compost and weeds
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:31:05 EDT
In a message dated 10/25/01 11:14:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Blee811@aol.com writes:
<<
What I'm wondering is whether I could add these weeds to compost if I bought
one of those drum type composters, the kind where you fill it, close a door
and then turn the handle to rotate the drum each day. They are advertised as
creating compost quickly. The question is whether they'd kill off weeds I
added. >>
Bill,
We had a friend who paid around 400.00 for one of these. Every time you
opened the door on the end the odor was overpowering. As far as I know he
never accomplished any compost with his wonderful machine though he was fond
of owning it.
When age begins to be a factor in what you do outdoors, you will forget bins,
machines and formulas for the easy method of letting nature do it. You only
need patience.
Choose a location, wheel the garden debris to it and make a pile.
Occasionally throw on sods (all gardeners tear up grass) or some soil, water
it if you like or not if you like and in time you will have compost. Choose
a place where other members of the family will not be angered for the
untidiness of compost. We form a circle, or try to, taking the oldest part
of the pile first and adding to the other end the newest contributions. Ours
is behind a barn.
There is a ton of information on composting, even a society for extending the
knowledge of composting but no trick. It all rots away and becomes compost
in time with virtually no effort and some patience (more than one year for a
better product, more than two years if it does not rain a lot).
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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