[grosmont50]

Mother changes her compost every year, it ranges from seed , all purpose, ericaceous and what ever else she uses and ive just thrown 10 bags of it on my compost heap, is this ok or may it cause problems? bolting ,stable door and horse spring to mind but i am very green (not fingered) and just assumed

[Ian_P]

I do it every year and have done so for a long time with no problems.By the time the compost heap is emptied into the bean trench or whatever next year it has mixed in with everything else.

The other thing I used a lot for is to almost fill an old barrel, then I top up with something else like fresh compost and the carrots love it. Old compost was a very cheal (free) way to fill the barrel.

[mumofstig]

Not much room in my compost bin, so it just goes straight onto the soil as conditioner.

It really doesn't need to go through the compost process 

[DD.]

I was going to say, why compost compost?!

[sunshineband]

I dig it in to try to raise the level of the soil in our beds, as well as to break up the clay in some and give guts to the sandy ones 

[grosmont50]

thanks all for the advice, as to why compost compost? simply because all the plot and raised beds are growing at the moment and the compost bin was the only room i had