Compost

[littleshallot]

Just wondering what everyone is happy to compost? Do you compost all weeds and brambles or do you remove strong ones such as bindweed and self seeders? Many thanks


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[scarey55]

I don't compost brambles or Bindweed or chickweed but I know Two_Sheds (who will be along later) leaves all her weeds out to dry out/die then she composts them. I think she sometimes drowns perennial weeds in water then put them on the compost heap once they are dead too.

[Martin H]

At the moment I pile anything of vegetable origin onto the heap. Anything that doesn't die gets transferred to the next heap when I sort out the compost for use.

At some point I might become more discriminatory, but at the moment most stuff seems to die in the melee anyway.

[Two_Sheds]

Just wondering what everyone is happy to compost?

everything !

yep, even dog mess, but that compost only goes on flower beds, not on edibles

[littleshallot]

Thankyou Everyone


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[roitelet]

Me too, everything!

[Lazy Gardener]

I have one for soft material. Leaves, soft stems, kitchen waste etc.

And another for thicker stuff, Branches/twigs from pruning and brambles etc etc.

The soft stuff goes down quite quickly the other onejust gets piled up and up. If it doesnt go down between my prunings then i will pour a load of soft stuff in there and cover it and leave for a couple of years, Just wetting it in dry spells. Meanwhile i would start another pile.

[taff]

Don't chuck bindweed and couch grass in willy nilly though, dry or drown first.

[mothhawk]

Last year I threw out a spider plant into the compost as it was huge and had outgrown its space in the house. Broke up its roots as best I could, but they get so tight-packed in the pot that it's difficult. That compost was spread this spring on the flower and veg beds. Two weeks ago, nestling among the brassicas, I found a sturdy little spider plant that must have grown from one of the root pieces. I thought they were too frost tender to survive cold weather, but evidently not! It's now filling a bare patch in the flower bed.