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Old 30-05-2007, 12:46 PM posted to rec.gardens
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John Bachman wrote in
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If you manage the compost so that it gets hot the weed seeds will be
killed.


Are you sure? Seems to me I remember one of the teachers in our MG class
saying that weed seeds can survive even the hottest compost pile. In fact,
IIRC, the first things that return after a forest fire are the weeds.