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Originally Posted by IAMBEN
In my community the dump ground composts all the grass clippings/leaves they pick up and then offer it back to the community at 2000lbs per resident. It looks like black dirt when it becomes available. My question would be is this safe to till into the garden or would I run the risk of introducing diseases and weed seeds to my garden?
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I would at least do some small test spots before I added a lot of it to my garden. Any grass clippings that had herbicides or pesticides sprayed on them can carry the chemicals over into the compost. Enough herbicide transfer and your garden may not grow very much next year. As a general rule, if I don't know where it came from and what is (or isn't) in it, I don't add it to my garden. Sometimes "free" compost will cost a lot down the road, in headaches if not in dollars.
