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Old 08-11-2010, 06:57 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Greenhouse Compost heap!

Bob Hobden wrote:
Is that a good idea? It's not long since I cleaned out and used Jeyes to
disinfect our little greenhouse ready for the winter, rotting plant material
is just going to encourage moulds etc, or am I wrong?
The Victorians used manure outside the greenhouse in a separate pit to
provide heat for growing pineapples etc.


We put compost under grow bags in the cold frame in late winter to ready
them for growing, but mostly all we got was HUGE potato plants growing up
and over the grow bags and smothering everything in them!