Compost

[ady...@aol.com]

Question regarding compost piles at garden. 

 

If items that are diseased (fungus and virus) are put in the compost piles, will the heat kill it off or will we just be recomtaminating the garden. 

 

I ask this because I viewed (too late) the maintenance crew dumping the brown garbage cans into the compost and I thought they were for garbage and non-composting plants only.

[Richard Wolfert]

Thanks for telling us. Depending on the answer, we may contact the
maintenance people to correct this.

Rich

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[Richard Wolfert]

With having observed a large borer ruin a perfectly good squash-type
vine yesterday (the insect inside was formidable in size), and leaves
with squash but nymphs, all disposed of in the brown can, I decided to
ask Parks to NOT mix the material in the brown cans (usually infested
with insects, fungus or blight of some sort) into our compost bins.

Of course, perfectly good material should ALWAYS be composted normally…
in the bins.

Thanks,

Rich

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On Aug 17, 2009, at 9:34 AM, ady...@aol.com wrote:

[Richard Wolfert]

Of course (if I actually CHECKED my spelling), that would have been
'squash BUG nymphs'.

Rich

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