"Bill" wrote in message
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In article ,
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:

"George.com" wrote in message
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I am growing potatos in tyres and they are thriving. One stack is 5
tryes
high and still going. I started running out of soil to throw in the
tyres
so
last weekend I went round to a mates compost bin to dig some compost
out.
Its typical back yard compost, a large mound of material slowly rotting
down
with a humus of material on top, better stuff further down and a
covering
of
weeds.

I scraped back the weeds and turfed the top humus to one side before
extracting several sacks worth of the better stuff. I took it home and
have
started shoving it in my tyres.

Anyhow, on the sunday night my friend called asking if I had a pumpkin
plant
in my sacks. His lad had come home from a weekend with his mum & rushed
up
the garden to see how the pumpkin plant he had growing in the compost
pile
was doing. It was a giant pumpkin he was going to enter a competition
with.
He came back down the garden in tears, some how the pumpkin plant had
'dissappeared'.

During my dig I had assumed the pumpkin plant was another weed and
likely
turfed it to one side. The lad was distraught and I felt sorry for him,
but
at the same time I did have to laugh.

rob


Why did you have to laugh? Are you normally permitted to access the
neighbor's compost bin?

While searching for compost thief found this...

Bill who has a lid on his piles and is invited by his neighbors to take
all that rotten stuff away. Even leaves in plastic bags! We live in a
wooded area and we now have leaf pick up. Crazy.


Actually, my question was a surrogate for a different one. Let's wait and
see what the response is.