[Garden] Blight in compost? And an interesting article

[Madeline Rosamond]

Too late! We've been throwing the rotten ones in for months. (But we
can stop doing it now, anyway.)
So - maybe this is a good kick in the butt to actually turn our
compost more often? I'll volunteer to do this Wednesday.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:58 PM, J. Rochon <jrochon at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Gardeners,
>                    Compost normally kills pathogens by heating. Our
> compost heap is too low to generate adequate heat, and we're looking at
> a cool fall. Please keepthe blighted tomatoes out of the compost.
>
>                        Interestingly, if you look up sun spot activity,
> our current cool coincides with the end of the eleven year solar cycle.
> Apparently the next cycle, whenever it starts, will be thirty percent
> hotter than this cycle.
>> I just looked it up quick and it sounds like it is not a good idea to
>> compost blighted tomatoes for the obvious reasons.  Sounds like it is
>> best to take them out and throw them in the dumpster to be safe.
>>
>> If you want more local information on food miles the Public Health
>> department has published a study looking at the distance of 58
>> commonly eaten foods into Waterloo Region.  The results are quite
>> shooking - average is about 4500kms and most of this food can be grown
>> here.
>>
>> Anyway, if you are interested here is the link to the report:
>> http://chd.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/health.nsf/4f4813c75e78d71385256e5a0057f5e1/54ED787F44ACA44C852571410056AEB0/$file/FOOD_MILES_REPORT.pdf?openelement
>>
>> Candace
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Madeline Rosamond
>> <m.rosamond at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, all:
>>> Pete, Paul and I (my name should be Mary, I guess) composted some of
>>> the dead tomato plants in the garden Sunday. After we'd done it, it
>>> occured to me that putting blighted tomatoes in the compost might
>>> spread the blight around. Any thoughts about this? No information was
>>> forthcoming from the gardening book we have in the shed, sadly.
>>>
>>> Also, is the average distance from grocery store food to your home
>>> really 1500 miles? Slate knows:
>>> http://www.slate.com/id/2200202/
>>>
>>> Cheerio,
>>> Maddy
>>>
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