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How do compost heaps help decayed weeds?

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Decreasing work, minimizing unsightliness and releasing nutrients are ways that compost heaps help decayed weeds. Disposal of weeds can be carried out in the two steps of extricating them from their location and transporting them to the pile even though other disposal demands the intermediate step of bagging or boxing. Unattractively spent weeds may be concentrated in one place, away from view while attention to proper procedure and time release aerobically decomposed heap content nutrients to sustain soils and their soil food web members.

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A good compost heap will destroy the weeds and their seeds, turning them into valuable compost.

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