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

"George.com" wrote in message
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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


No, I have a wonderful crop of weeds I do not normally have. Someone offered
us some very old horse muck and I took off the surface layer and thought at
10 years plus the seed bank would be exhausted - it wasn't!
On the plus side the clematis are loving it :~)

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

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Anyone with a bright idea to kill the weeds?

If you have a really weedy batch of manure (reflects what the horse
was fed on) the simplest solution is to use it under the soil surface,
in trenches dug for beans or planting stations for greedy feeders such
as rhubarb etc. The seeds will just be too deep down to ever
germinate.

Janet.

12 months in the composter should kill all weeds.

"Pest Effects" wrote in message
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12 months in the composter should kill all weeds.


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Pest Effects
Would that it was true! in practice it will still grow allsorts as soon as
it gets light and air.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)