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Aug 14, 2014 6:32 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
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>> A nice clean composted bed can be ruined in a hurry with careless sheet composting of seedy weedy plant debris.

Oh, you SAW my attempt to pamper some lettuce seeds by covering them with sifted compost?

I never before saw such a healthy, dense and vigorous monocrop of weeds in my life!

The really sad thing is that I PUT those flowering weeds into my small, cold compost heap and rotted them for 6+ months. Some gardening advice is very good advice! "No weed seeds in the pile" is good advice, even if weeds are all you HAVE to feed your heap.

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