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treeinnj

should I compost thorny bush clippings?

treeinnj
15 years ago

I am about to cut back a thorny "bushy" looking thing - long vines, small green leaves - grows & almost looks like rasberry bush/vines but they've got thorns not the "red fur," but grows in same way - long arching branches from a bush sort of thing, vines w/thickness of my pinky (& I have small hands) or a little thicker than a pencil. Anyway, these thorny branches - on the edge of the wooded area behind my house - have almost completely overgrown a butterfly bush - which was only 1/2 overgrown by this "bush" last fall.

Anyway - I will have lots of "greens" when I cut this back & free (& prune) the butterfly bush. LOTS of thorns -

Would you put such a thorny thing into compost pile?

Thanks, Tree

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