Easy Gardening: Composting to Kill Weed Seeds
- Type
- Publication
- Date of Publication
- January 25, 2022
- Price
- See Agrilife Learn
Overview
Publication Information
Improper composting can spread thousands of new weeds into your garden.
Easy Gardening: Composting to Kill Weed Seeds is a 2-page factsheet that explains how to manage a compost pile so it gets hot enough to destroy weed seeds while still producing nutrient-rich compost for your soil. Designed for home gardeners at any level.
What You'll Learn
- Compost garden benefits: How compost improves soil texture, nutrients, and moisture.
- Compost heat management: The role of temperature in destroying weed seeds.
- Compost techniques: Use layering, turning, and monitoring to keep compost safe.
Download your free guide today and start producing compost that improves your soil and stops weeds!
Explore More Easy Gardening Guides
Looking for more practical gardening help?
The Easy Gardening series offers a full set of guides on crops and practices suited for Texas gardens. Check out the complete lineup here: Easy Gardening series
Looking for solutions in your county? Contact your local extension experts
More choices in Crops & Produce
- Course
The Learn, Grow, Eat & Go online course is a self-directed and engaging training course for teachers, volunteers, and Extension. It serves as a dynamic professional development opportunity and a new, multimedia curricular option for the Learn, Grow, Eat & Go! Curriculum.
- Course
Those who participate in this course will learn about herbicides, different modes of action, and different herbicide families. Pesticide applicators looking to receive 1 hour of credit for TDA pesticide general CEU can be earned with this course.
- Course
This course teaches the basics of growing tomatoes in your garden, and allows you to cover the material at your own pace and on your own time schedule so begin when you’re ready. This course was first developed for Texas gardeners. However, most information is suitable for other regions.
- Course
This course is designed to assist pest management companies in training new employees. By taking this course, apprentices and other employees will have the opportunity to receive 20 hours of in-depth training required by the Texas Department of Agriculture Structural Pest Control Service.
- Publication
Gardening in Texas has unique challenges, but that doesn’t mean you can’t grow vegetables here. You just need to know what kind, when, and where.
- Publication
Today Master Gardeners are active in all 50 U.S. States and eight Canadian provinces. The heart of the Texas Master Gardener program is the dedicated, passionate volunteers who are willing to share their knowledge with anyone interested. 2019 Edition.