Re: Compost and weeds
- Subject: Re: Compost and weeds
- From: N* L*
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:08:31 -0600
Marya talked about hot composting in garbage bags and said:
>It's a lot of work; perhaps you could just hot compost your problem weeds
>and let the other things slow rot?
________________________
Now that sounds like a keen idea! I'm a lazy composter, too. Don't worry
about the carbon/nitrogen mix (well, it gets nitrogen in summer...), don't
turn it or water it. As a result, my compost never cooks, and takes a
couple of years for a pile to finish (and then there are still some
uncomposted things that I just toss into the current pile. So, there are
some things I just don't put in the compost heap (bermuda grass and
bindweed) because they won't die! Much as I hate to admit it, they go into
the garbage. Next time I have a garbage bag full of bindweed, I may try
adding some shredded leaves and compost and see what happens.
Nancy Lowe, Arkansas zone 7, where the threatened frost didn't happen in my
yard last night, so I appear to be safe for the next week or so.
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
