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Old 06-05-2006, 05:03 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Horse poop and weeds (suggestions welcome)

I grabbed some free horse poop from the side of the road during the week.
The poop was bagged up and been sitting there I don't know how long.

Anyhow, when I opened the bags today there were a variety of weeds growing
in the poop, including some I suspect will germinate from root material left
in the ground. I pulled out what I could (going in the garbage bin) and
threw the poop in to a plastic compost bin (that some on the newsgroup call
darlek composters) where I age any poop I get before using it.

Whilst the compost bin is dark I suspect some of the weed material will
germinate again. Some I can pull out by hand or burn them with hot water
(though that would kill some of the worms as well). Heat from the poop may
kill some of the seed material although the compost bin is probably too
small to get a really high temperature. I could spray with glycosate.

Anyone with a bright idea to kill the weeds?

rob