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i put unfinished compost in garden, now i have maggots all in the garden. help?

i forgot to mention that there was no meat products added tocompost pile, only coffee grounds from starbucks and vegetable scraps. i didnt add any browns, only greens

Maggots? From your compost pile? You are adding something to your compost pile that you shouldn’t be adding. Flies lay there eggs, which turn into maggots, on meat products, not vegetable products. Did you add meat to your compost pile??? Don’t add meat products or household animal (dog & cat) waste to your compost pile. This is inviting maggots and disease. But, now that you have added this to the garden, do you have chickens that you can turn loose into the garden to eat the maggots? The maggots aren’t going to hurt your garden. They will just turn into flies. Just be more careful in the future.

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3 Responses to “i put unfinished compost in garden, now i have maggots all in the garden. help?”

1. ratgirl says:

   June 28, 2010 at 11:46 am

   Maggots? From your compost pile? You are adding something to your compost pile that you shouldn’t be adding. Flies lay there eggs, which turn into maggots, on meat products, not vegetable products. Did you add meat to your compost pile??? Don’t add meat products or household animal (dog & cat) waste to your compost pile. This is inviting maggots and disease. But, now that you have added this to the garden, do you have chickens that you can turn loose into the garden to eat the maggots? The maggots aren’t going to hurt your garden. They will just turn into flies. Just be more careful in the future.
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   long time composter
2. sassy2 says:

   June 28, 2010 at 12:12 pm

   You also had meat in your compost and that is a no no. Shovel it up and bury it in a deep hole
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3. robert C says:

   June 28, 2010 at 12:17 pm

   turn over the soil , the birds will take care of the rest, sometimes a fly will get into the heap and lay eggs , no big deal, it is quite common occurence , they will have gone very soon
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