Re-cycling tomato plant compost?

Discussion in 'Compost, Fertilisers & Recycling' started by The Lost Antheus, Sep 17, 2008.

  1. The Lost Antheus

    The Lost Antheus Gardener

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    Rather annoyingly my tomatoes succumbed to Tomato blight last week. I have binned the plants but was wondering if the compost could be spread on the garden, or would it be infected?
     
  2. daitheplant

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    It would be infected Antheus, sterilise it with Jeyes or Armillatox. You say you binned the plants, not the compost bin, I hope ?
     
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    No the bin is still there doing its stuff. Two bins actually one nearly ready for spreading and the other still filling.
     
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    I may be wrong... but didn't David mean 'I hope hope you didn't put the blighted plants in the compost bin'? As if you have, you've just wasted your compost.
     
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    I miss read. No the plants went into the council bin
     
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