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Yes that’s my worry, I feel like leaving the weedkiller and contaminated weeds in the compost to mingle with my new plants and veggies as they grow down could be bad, I’m not actually sure how long the weedkiller is active for.

I’m at a bit of a standstill until I figure this one out…and until this awful weather clears up!

Thank you for your advice.

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Thank you
that’s really helpful, so good to be able to use them 🙂
Karen

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We are currently building raised beds so this question is very much on our minds too. Looking forward to the response. Thank you for raising this question. K

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Hello
Your story is very like my own. I am 71, and last year took over my husbands allotment after he died. I have never grown vegetables before, just a few flower beds in my garden, so this was all quite new to me. I also suffer from arthritis in my hands and I am hoping that I can achieve some success with the no dig method. My only worry is that I am not spreading the compost thick enough, it is quite a job for me to source it and transport it as I don’t have a car. But I am going to give it a go!

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Thank you Charles and Don, and maybe I should plant indoors for a month or so until it warms up and then have a bed outside that is a plant nursery that I use only for starts. If I did use a garden bed as a plant nursery, would I apply seed starting mix or potting soil to it instead of my homemade compost (kitchen scraps, bedding from my 2 sheep and chickens)? Are you suggesting Charles, that my compost is all that is needed to get plants started? I know I want to avoid perlite which is in the mixes here because it looks like 1970 murdered bean bags out in my garden as those white pellets never seem to go away.

Beth
Idaho
Zone 7B

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