https://www.compostthis.co.uk/bindweed The easy to use composting guide Mon, 14 Nov 2022 13:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://www.compostthis.co.uk/bindweed#comment-1030731 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:51:57 +0000 http://www.compostthis.co.uk/bindweed#comment-1030731 The council uses an industrial thermo composter which composts at temperatures around 60deg centigrade. This makes it possible for bindweed and stinging nettles to be turned into compost. If you want to do it at home it’s more complicated. You need to drown or dry the plants first. Both takes several weeks, but works well.

]]> https://www.compostthis.co.uk/bindweed#comment-935266 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:12:20 +0000 http://www.compostthis.co.uk/bindweed#comment-935266 I accept that bindweed is aggressively committed to its own survival, so I certainly don’t try to compost it in my own heap. However, I am tempted to put it (along with stinging nettles) into the green bin that the local council provides for composting garden waste. Am I then storing up trouble for those who buy the council’s soil improver?

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