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David in Normandy writes:
| Bashy says...
|
| Can someone tell me, does compost go off?
| I bought a 75 litre bag of west advanced plus multi purpose last year
| and opened it.
| Hardley any of it was used (just a pot's worth at the end of the
| summer).
| I've just had a look at it and it doesn't look right!!
|
| I've had some cheap compost go mouldy before - white fur
| coat on pieces of compost and white fillaments running
| through it. Musty smell too. In which case I just mixed it
| with garden soil and used it for potting on plants
| (outside). I wouldn't use it indoors and definitely not for
| seeds as they will likely rot.

No more likely to than normal. Most fungi (especially those that
have mycelium) are pretty specialised, and there is no particular
reason that those would attack seedlings. You aren't going to
avoid having fungi in your compost, unless you go in for laboratory
sterility, you know. Mould spores are ubiquitous.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.