Bobert, if you get your compost hot enough you can knock out the weeds along with everything else. Howard Garrett (http://www.dirtdoctor.com) even says you can put that @#**@ nutgrass in the compost! (geez, but I am tired of pulling nutgrass--it's right up there next to Bermuda as a horrible weed). I haven't gotten a system in place yet to really do the compost the hot fast way; it sits out there long enough to break down, and if I remember to set the sprinkler on it every so often it works faster. I designed my big compost area so that I would pile it on one side then turn it and move it to the other side. Who'd have thought that I'd have so much stuff that I'd completely fill the pen? So I need to build another one next door. Meanwhile, I turn it out onto the ground and scoop the good stuff out of the bottom then pile the unfinished stuff back in (and throw a few shovels full of the good finished stuff on top to percolate through).

It works.

SRS