Who puts weeds in their compost bin?

I've been weeding the garden lately before everything gets going and have been slinging all the weeds in my council green waste bin. But I'm starting to wonder if I should perhaps stick them in the compost bin after all as its not filling up as quickly as I like it to.

I know perennial weeds are a no no but how does one tell the difference? Things like hindered, bramble and dandelions I won't put in but are there any others I should avoid. I have dug out a lot of annual weeds, most quite young. Are these safe to be composted straight away?

What do other members do with their weeds (if they do stick them in the compost bin)?

 

I always put them in the compost bin, we'd get our wrists slapped here if we put them in the general waste one

 

Stick it all in assuming there's no seeds with them. I've never had any trouble with it.

 

I always throw all my weeds in the council green bin,

 

We've not been told to differentiate between perennial weeds, whether they have seeds, etc. It's literally all garden waste we've been told to put in the compost bin. All councils seem to differ slightly on refuse; my previous authority wouldn't take glass but I can put glass in our recycle bin

 

With our council you can also put in your green bin food waste as well as garden stuff

 

All our annual weeds go in the compost bin. Sometimes we take off the seed heads first, eg poppies or honesty. Admittedly when we use our compost there are always some seedling which appear but probably no more than would be caused by self seeding around the garden.

I'd add couch grass and nettles to your list of perennials not to be composted.

 

Agree with nFrost, if your compost pile or bin is operating at the correct temperature it should kill off all annual weeds and the odd missed perennial seed or two.

 

We get a silly little food caddy which then gets emptied into a bit-bigger caddy...

 

We got silly little plastic caddies as well for food waste, mines in the garage now storing odds and sods.

 

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Mine's a brewing pot for penicillin, despite my repeated attempts at cleaning the darn thing

 

Brambles and other nasty prickly stuff - burn it and spread the ashes.

Pernicious weeds (with or without seed heads) - drown them and use as feed or chuck them on the fire of above stuff. Also throw lumps of heavy clay on that fire to make them permanently friable.

Nothing goes in our kitchen waste bin.

 

I don't think my compost bin is operating at the correct temperature. Even though I get compost out of it I still get tomato and pepper seedlings cropping up in abundance.

 

My rule of thumb is this. If its biodegradable, but isn't bindweed or anything that carries nasty pathogens (meat or carnivore poo) then it goes in my compost bin.

 

everything goes in mine apart from cooked food and bones , even branches I cut up small , it has a lid so no light even if they do re-grow, the whole thing gets emptied in the spring and then it all starts again I dont have the space for two or three .