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-Scuffs feet- Um, I did something stupid.
Last year I dug my first bed, and had no idea what to do with the turf I took off the top. I didn't and still don't have a compost bin, and if I tired to put that in my black wheelie bin, I think the binmen would hate me enough to post it through the letterbox! Anyway, I set it all to the side in a messy pile to deal with later. I started trying to neaten the pile up today, and found slugs and slug eggs in there.
I remember someone once telling me that if you pile clods of turf upside down (roots up), the grass dies off and they degrade to a sort of compost. Is there any truth in this? And if so, would it be disastrous to do that knowing that there are a few slug eggs in there? I took out all that I found, but I have no doubt I'll have missed a few.
Suggestions? Please?? :s
Last year I dug my first bed, and had no idea what to do with the turf I took off the top. I didn't and still don't have a compost bin, and if I tired to put that in my black wheelie bin, I think the binmen would hate me enough to post it through the letterbox! Anyway, I set it all to the side in a messy pile to deal with later. I started trying to neaten the pile up today, and found slugs and slug eggs in there.
I remember someone once telling me that if you pile clods of turf upside down (roots up), the grass dies off and they degrade to a sort of compost. Is there any truth in this? And if so, would it be disastrous to do that knowing that there are a few slug eggs in there? I took out all that I found, but I have no doubt I'll have missed a few.
Suggestions? Please?? :s
. But presumably didn't harm the soil, because they grew stuff every year! And carbon's good for the soil, no? But I'm not sure I'd bother personally - unless your garden is otherwise totally free of slugs and snails? You can just deal with them all at the same time 
. Now if your heap got really hot of course, like all the best heaps apparently do, that'd kill off the eggs anyway... the only thing I've managed to get hot so far is grass clippings when freshly stacked... better start reading up on how to make compost properly again I suppose... *sigh *.
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Without them and other small creatures the turves wouldn't compost properly.
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