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21st October 2015 at 3:24 pm
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John
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Hi Charles
My thoughts exactly but there are so many entrenched views on the allotments. None of my immediate neighbours have a compost heap and I find it such a waste. I have offered to receive broad bean and runner bean haulms but even then there is some resistance.
I am not keen on receiving roots from other plots in case of soil borne diseases. I have onion white rot and wouldn’t want to pass it on. Would you be wary of plant roots with, inevitably, some soil attached?