jane wrote:
After an experience I had last week, I would not visit the
greengrocer! I bought some pickling onions off the local market stall,
and they had onion white rot.
If I hadn't known what it was, I'd have put the rotten ones in the
compost and as a result, never been able to grow alliums again in
either garden or allotment.
As it is, the whole bag got binned into landfill - where hopefully the
spores will die off over the next 15-20 years.
As ever with these things, you have to be careful...

This is very much what I was fearing when our council provided us with
green bins 6 months ago for our garden waste. My first thought was that
they would recycle all the stuff they get from hundreds of bins and
sell it as council top soil or use it back into our public places. I
became really worried as I wouldn't trust say, a builder getting rid of
a garden which could be contaminated and then the council flogging it
back to the community. Do they have 'experts' monitoring what is being
brought through the green bins?