Like all us gardeners I LOVE TO COMPOST, and last year put every scrap of compostable waste I could to this good use and by September I had some good rotting down done. So I got out my garden sieve and went to work on my compost heap and around an hour later I had got myself two large sacks of compost. I was very chuffed. The compost had plenty of rotten matter and manure and looked great, though not totally like the shop bought stuff. Anyway I stored it away for winter for the following year.
Come early spring I decided to get some seeds done, and here is were I learned my lesson. I planted up lots of seeds and waited for some germination! Not long after some germination started to happen, but to my dismay is was not what I planted, it was everything else but what I planted, Dandelion, Poppy and other such easily germinating monsters. So I plucked them out and waited. Soon after what I planted came up and I thought YES my compost is good I can cope with a few weeds here and there. Of Course my first wave of extermination was not the last...... it never is. To cut this a little shorter my little vegetable babies came through, but I have since found that they have struggled to get going and I know its because I used my own homemade compost. In comparison to other seedling done in bought compost they have grown much slower and are of a poor quality. So my biggest lesson learnt... DON'T USE HOME-MADE COMPOST FOR SEEDLINGS! There are plenty other ways to use it, next year its getting forked through the flower beds.
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