A garden is only as good as the ground that it's planted in. Discussion forum for the many ways to improve the soil where we plant our gardens.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: New York
Posts: 3
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My sunflowers have all died back, and the birds are enjoying the seeds. Can I throw the stalks in the compost pile? What about the remaining parts of the flowers? Also, someone told me not to compost tomato plants. Is this true?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
Posts: 4,832
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Hummmm, I compost both sunflower stalks and healthy tomato plants that died back or were pulled by me, just not anything that is diseased or sickly.
I tend to have the bigger stalks on the sunflowers, so wait until they are dried out and run them through the little wood chipper to hurry nature along. Rob claims I would put most anything through the chipper, LOL. |
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