drowning weeds

[bikermike]

anyone done this?
(just in case I am talking nonsense, I recall reading somewhere you can make weeds safe for compost if you leave them in a bucket of water for a couple of weeks).

I've left them two weeks (and they'll get at least another week), so I wonder if they are done yet?

[Baldy]

Mine go into a water butt that also contains nettles and comfrey - stinks to high heaven - only empty it out round about now onto the compost pile. Use the liguid as feed.
Only things I don't throw in are buttercup and couch grass - as they seem to find it an acceptable growing medium...

Couch and buttercup generally get laid out to dry and then incinerated and the ashes used on the soil

[Paulie]

I've done it, and it works - but it took much longer than two or three weeks for the weed roots to decompose to the point where I was confident they were dead. Mind you, there were a lot of solid roots - docks, nettles, and bindweed. I think I left one batch for about six months...