Should Weeds Be Added to the Compost Pile?

I’m determined to have their short, weedy lives have some meaning

So you ’ve just spent a cool outpouring sunup pull up refreshed , N - rich sens in your garden and yard . Should you head for the green waste can on the side yard , or toss the grass into your compost pile ?

The issue of whether or not to lend smoke to a compost sight comes up oft . I ’m not being overmodest when I say that there ’s honestly no right or wrong solution . It ’s more a interrogation of timing as well as the type of weed you have in your script .

I can only tell you why you might and why you might not , and whatIdo with my weeds . I do add weeds to myhotcompost pack , but most of the one I put in there have not buy the farm to ejaculate . I stress to pull up the sens up before they have any seed heads , and it ’s all ripe as far as I ’m concerned ( I ’m determined to have their short , weedy lives have some import ) .

If one or two widow’s weeds with seed get in there , I do n’t stress about it because , for the most part , hot piles electrocute the little seed to death before they can rear their unworthy heads again . That said , I wo n’t cast off any weeds into my cold-blooded voltaic pile that have fail to seed . That ’s just necessitate for trouble .

Keep in mind that some weeds propagate themselves from their rootstock or even from art object of root . One mode to prevent this character of weed from procreating is to rend the grass and lay it on the clear ground in the sun . This let the roots dry out completely until they ’re all dried out — that is , quite dead . At this point when it ’s thrown onto the compost mess , it ’s as a brown instead of a green .

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