Messed up and bought compost

13 years ago

We ran out of compost this year. I knew we should just do something else but I bought 60 yards of compost from a local mulch dealer. It looked fine in the lot but it must have been buggy and not fully done deeper. We had to screen out a lot of crap and apparently it came with a crapload of bugs. We have aphids, ants and slugs in beds we have never had bug issues in before. I have been spreading de every other morning and still seeing bugs...

Shame...

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mustard_seeds
13 years ago
are the birds finding the bugs as you spread out the compost? That seems to be the normal cycle for me with bugs in the compost. They were in there creating the compost, then they get eaten when I spread it out. 60 yards, wow that is a lot of compost.

Rachel
Rio_Grande
Original Author
13 years ago
Not sure Rachel, we have birds around the main gardens where a lot of it went. The raised beds where we are seeing the problems are not being invaded by birds. But if they want to eat the bugs more power to them. I picked up a crank duster this week, shame they don't make battery operated ones, and it maks spreading the DE much less of a chore!

We have been on a 3 year plan to improve our clay loam by adding compost each year. I have a small start for next year but a couple years ago we sold off all of our livestock so access to manures is poor.
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