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Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: kiowa on August 23, 2006, 18:27

Title: cornflowers
Post by: kiowa on August 23, 2006, 18:27

hi friends,
the cornflowers i have are comming to an end ...can i use the stems for compost bin ? or would they go hard /brittle .

 thanks a bunch!

Title: cornflowers
Post by: John on August 23, 2006, 19:00

If it was alive, it will compost. Some things just take longer than others so you pick them out and put them in next years bin as well

Title: cornflowers
Post by: milkman on August 23, 2006, 21:09

Definitely put them in the compost bin - maybe chop them up a bit first with some shears or secateurs.

Title: cornflowers
Post by: James on August 29, 2006, 13:44

Very little that is an annual will not compost fairly rapidly.  It's not actually as woody as it looks or feels.  When you come to apply the copmost next November, when double digging your patch, anything that's left can just be dug in with the compost.