So I’m having a little trouble wrapping my head around what I should be doing with blighted plant material, rotting/ infected fruits and veggies.
Part of me really wants to cut it all out and like burn it, so that the fungus and disease is destroyed and then really only compost stuff that’s “healthy”.
One farmer I worked for never put vegetable compost back into his fields. It was used to fertilize another field where commercial corn was grown. The vegetable fields only had synthetic or manure on them. But doing some gardening now… it’s not like I have another field. I’ve gotten in the habit of throwing stuff on the lawn, where the grass doesn’t care or the mower just chips it up. Kinda gross but at least it’s not going into my compost. I plow the normal compost back into the garden in the spring.
Should I be worrying about this so much? What other solutions am I not thinking of?
Do you guys keep compost separated by plant type, kind of like compost crop rotation?
Its best to do these big piles in the fall when there is an abundance of dry leaves everywhere. Drive through town with a trailer and snatch ppls leaf bags. Getting enough "browns" is always the challenge. At other times of year poultry and horse farms offer nice used hay/wood shavings that are great browns. Who knows what kinda other crap is coming with the cardboard.
KeepPoal4fags 0 points 8 months ago
Its best to do these big piles in the fall when there is an abundance of dry leaves everywhere. Drive through town with a trailer and snatch ppls leaf bags. Getting enough "browns" is always the challenge.
At other times of year poultry and horse farms offer nice used hay/wood shavings that are great browns.
Who knows what kinda other crap is coming with the cardboard.