Hello Mark and it was good to see you.
Such a pity that you keep running into these problems and it makes me wonder how much of this awful aminopyralid has been sprayed on fields for horse hay. Its a terrible poison and Dow should be ashamed and compensating everyone, or prosecuting the farmers who sold the sprayed hay, after signing a contract to say they would not.
I have just checked my green waste compost and its fine. However its also low in nutrients from being too fresh for growing.
Although it looks black, the heap temperature is 55C and wood is breaking down, taking nitrogen where it can grab it.
So… all depends how decomposed your purchase is.
Its good in the end but if used in 4-6in depths, there is a risk of veg losing out while it finishes decomposing.
Try adding some New Horizon organic chicken manure pellets to it, look at the difference here where I added some to the middle row:
“French bean plants in green waste compost, chicken manure added to middle row”
