Re: compost and weeds
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] compost and weeds
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 02:58:45 -0500
Oh, yes..always have sprouting things in whatever I use my compost
for. It heats up, but not enough to kill all weed seeds. I compost
everything that's not obviously diseased or nothing but seedheads;
always have nice healthy chickweed seedlings, but they are easy to
pull or destroy if you don't let them mature. Also get other
interesting seedlings, often of plants I actually want, so move
those.
Chickweed must have the most incredible seedbank. I've been clearing
woods and the entire side of a hill, from which I'd removed solid
blankets of ground ivy and honeysuckle sprouted over night after a
week or so of being cleared. And every one of those seedlings is a
chickweed plant. I will have fun there for some years to come, I can
see. When I realized something had sprouted, I had hoped it was some
confused plant and would be killed off by winter..ha!
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Kay Dye <Kdye1@AOL.COM>
> Date: Saturday, November 04, 2000 8:06 AM
>
> Dear All,
> With all this discussion of compost, I haven't heard any mention of
weeds. I
> always compost my leaves, vegetative material and use it on my
garden when I
> can. It's great stuff, but I am always plagued with chickweed
about two
> weeks after I use it. Don't any of you have a problem with weeds
in your
> compost?
> Kay Dye, Edelstein, zone 5
