Reply To: gazillion weeds or weed seeds in homemade compost

[Karen]

Hey all, thanks for all your input and feedback. I knew I had to get on top of the weeding before it gets way too overwhelming and difficult.

Finally was able to get it done today. Was armed with the Nunki weeder, Mira trowel and my trusty fingers. Stringfellow, you are very right that weeding around the lettuces are a lot easier once some leaves have been picked off. Just is a daunting task when sooooo many weeds are visible.

Rhys, I had loads of tomato seedlings in the compost spread too…. and worse still… loads of pumpkins seedlings too. Just wasn’t sure how they ended up in the compost heap and onto the beds. I managed to save some seedlings onto another empty spot…. just onlv hope that they will be Red Kuri pumpkins and not end up as the non edible decorative type. 🙁

The weed seeds in the compost could have been from previous weeds that were pulled out with SEED HEADS! That´s the only explanation I can think of.

Hey Charles, these beds were the ones in the previous post where we added the cow manure compost and then I took the finer compost from our compost heap and spread them on top of the cow manure compost. I definitely need to plan a lot better next year.

Hey Di, I thought it was horse manure that has more weed seeds than cow manure, because the cows could digest their food better? As I have observed from our cow and horse manure heaps that the horse manure has loads of weeds (green hay?) emerging as opposed to the cow manure heap.