Should You Compost Diseased Leaves?

[@ZZ_Trop]

I compost everything. Dead bird in the yard, compost. Huge patch of weeds, compost. My enemies, compost. Dog 💩, compost. Neighbors leaf bags, compost.

[@JJLom777]

No cat poop.

[@wendyburston3132]

​@@JJLom777Or dog poop. We bought HH black earth this year and the bag says it has community waste in it. The community says to put animal waste into the compost bin. Well they are not processing it enough. The smell is atrocious even after a few months outside and my lettuce is the worst tasting garbage ever. It tastes like the dirt it's growing in smells.

[@npast1]

No raccoon manure in compost. Look up raccoon roundworms, deadly stuff.

[@wendyburston3132]

@@npast1 thankfully no racoons visit our backyard. What about squirrels? We have a lot of them.

[@GARDENER42]

Yep. Blighted potato tops, blighted tomato leaves & stems, leek leaves with rust, weed roots, mildewed peas, dead rats, deer trimmings, rabbit skins, old pairs of jeans, cat crap. Been doing it for 20 years & have yet to be ill from eating stuff grown using my own compost.

[@dougzale9611]

When the air is tested There are Mold spores in the air all the time indoors or outdoors they just need the right conditions to grow.

[@jamesgreen9372]

A wonderful topic. I was just contemplating this question as here in New England USA we have a good deal of leaves with “rust” at this time of year. Thanks, Jim

[@sumdude4281]

For rust I've heard same.

[@hollyr1049]

I had septoria through my whole garden this year. Maybe blight as well. Dont forget PM 🤬 And as I cut leaves or the plant stopped producing, I would put it in the fire pit. Then walk away mad as hell thinking what a waste...That was ridiculous! How am I ever going to clean up all the leaves that are now the same color as the mulch?! I was thinking exactly the same thing you just said. Thanks for giving me permission to not worry about it. Phew, feels good to have the weight off my shoulders 😂

[@79PoisonBreaker]

I try to get a big well mixed compost pile 6ftx6ftx6ft tall pyramid shape going in the fall with everything from the yard. I use a garden chipper/shredder or lawnmower on everything to chop and mix including my rabbit manure and waste hay. makes a nice hot compost normally ready to use as mulch in spring.

[@seajayami]

Great advice! I have asters yellow on my coneflowers - so I am removing all of them.

[@dc13032]

Glad to hear I can compost my leaves. Biggest concern I have is apple scab and I’m told to rake up all the leaves so they don’t over winter under the tree (Macs mostly) I may still do that but compost them at a distance from the apple trees.

[@blackglama1]

Love to learn how to compost . Not ready for it yet .

[@PorchGardeningWithPassion]

Great insights as always!

[@waldemargiers9641]

This time of the year I stop worry about diseased leafs. Every plant have them now. I even bring, spread and till in 100 bags of them in my vegetable garden every fall. (mostly sugar maple and honey locust leafs). I think soil is great neutralizer for it. Also, everything from flower and veggie garden is tilled in into my veggie plot. Diseased tomato and cucumber plants also. I never have significant problems with diseases during growing season after that.

[@sorbabaric1]

Great information, and practical. Thank you

[@lucabernardini3975]

Amazing info, thank you 😊

[@frankporterfield8121]

Thank you. Lots of great information.

[@harjtoor7555]

How about putting sick leaves aside and put them through thermophylic compost stage of composting couple times.

[@ghulamabbasawan7175]

Great information

[@susanstewart1402]

Should you compost branches with oyster scale? Our city has a significant problem with this and the green bin program takes everything. Who knows what is in the "free" compost you can get from the City in the spring.

[@charliezicolillo]

Hi Robert what about Garlic leaf rust.OUR community garden was infested with it.Brooklyn,NY.

[@binwaelle1138]

Thanks for the shearing 🎖️🏆

[@joecornely7309]

After years of losing all my tomatoes to diseases despite spraying various fungicides I had a diseased tomato plant tested and learned it was bacterial = Clavibacter MIchiganesesis pv Michiganensis (CMM) or Bacterial Canker. Do you have any recommendations'? Resistant varieties, sprays? I can only find the same old standard solutions: rotate, disinfect everything, get rid of dead plants, disinfect tools etc

[@theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329]

By the time you're raking up leafs, your entire garden is most likely already covered in spores of one kind or another. As long as you learn to spot the handful or so things which are likely to cause you real issues. Then you should be OK. If you have plum trees, and find some black knot, just burn, or bin it. Most of what we see this time of year is the clean-up crew for all that organic matter, starting the early shift.

[@AnnieDog-arfarf1]

Thank you!

[@carbar3936]

Does Black Kow help drain soil for tulip bulbs in a rasied garden bed Soil is approx 10 inches deep? Told to put leaves on top to help maintain temp to help the freezing/thawing process. Is this true? Thanks in advance for yur reply.

[@HeatherDuffy1313]

People think every mutant sunflower is asters yellow. Thank you for this.

[@cindyinpcola]

Very useful information! What if you have mild winters like mine USDA zone 9a?

[@paulinecrispin121]

I compost most stuff accept roses with black spot

[@crystalsimpson6324]

HELP ....Back in May, I had 2 truck loads of compost delivered. It was still hot and smelled great. After two months of sitting, it was full of purple nut sedge. I lost my mind and used agresal sulfentrazone f4 to kill the nut sedge. I knew this was both a pre and post emergent, but the directions said that turf could be reseeded after about 3 weeks. What was I thinking? I'm planting vegetables, not turf! Have I ruined the compost forever? Can I at least use it on the bottom half of the 3x3x20 foot raised bed I need to fill without poisoning my family?

[@listentomusicattheoffice]

What is your recommendation on composting grass cuttings where a broad leaf herbicide is applied by a lawn servicing company like Green Drop? Is it safe to use the organic matter after it has completely composted in vegetable garden beds?

[@spasecookee]

Generally yes. There are only a few herbicides that will not break down in soil. See one of his composting videos for which ones. But better to just leave the grass clippings on the lawn (grasscycling). The grass clippings will add nutrients back to your lawn.

[@raffaelacedraschi7110]

How do you identify a virus in plants? Thank you very much

[@baalqefel1570]

Have you heard of vermiticulus wilt on tomstoes? Comments on that would be appreciated please

[@susangarland6869]

Google is full of all kinds of information on all kinds of things.

[@danielalexanderawakening]

Compost everything!

[@lorrainedurgee1761]

Thanks - if I’m not sure on what to compost & what not to - I just put the product in another bag & throw out ..

[@kelleclark]

Any advice on TMV? I somehow got it on some peppers and a few tomatoes...burn or compost? Thanks in advance!

[@williamkeeney9836]

All you got to do is when it gets hot sun every day is don't grow a garden but keep turning the soul and it will eliminate the fungus in your garden soil but can't grow anything that year

[@weitang1196]

The only reason why I trash leaves and vines is because they had/have bugs in them. If I compost leaves and vines, the eggs from bugs will make their home here. It's difficult to compost eggs from bugs, let alone control them for the following year. I'm not too worried about fungi and bacteria. The eggs from bugs are the ones I worry about

[@M-Anu-EL]

If it isn’t toxic compost unless it’s a toxic relationship in that case compost

[@kcmouse]

Fungi is plural of fungus.

[@williamkeeney9836]

You want to go the soil dry as possible

[@dummkompf]

If I wanted to compost my neighbor who won't shut up, how long would it take for the body to become unrecognizable?

[@gunnarsson272]

The bones take many many years, can they take DNA from dinosaur bone...

[@william6223]

Noooo

[@reneedevry4361]

LOL😂😂 I have been dreaming about composting a neighbouring family for years. Sadly, not sure there would much benefit to the garden except for the peace, quiet and less vandalism. 😂

[@kahvac]

Farmers typically compost sick animals. Cows, sheep, pigs, whatever, but do not bury them just rotate into the above ground in the compost pile. Burying can contaminate the ground water they say.

[@robertcotrell9810]

Depends how much you turn the pile.

[@MI-wc6nk]

Sometimes the lack of basic logic by ppl amazes me - where did they think the spores came from in the first place?!? by the logic of many, it is amazing nature survives lol

[@shawnsg]

I have to disagree here. There are so many pathogens that the average person isn't going to be able to identify them. Sure, pathogens can travel, however, environment is a corner of the disease triangle. You may have a pathogen arrive, but not under ideal conditions vs just having them spread around ready to go.

[@sterlgirlceline]

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