My wife just came home and said she’d heard a woman on the show ask about what damage might happen from compost that had been stored in the trunk of her car for two months. The most likely impact would be a little surface rust on any unprotected metal from the moisture in the compost. The trunk ru…

I don’t think she’d giveit to you. I mean she shoveled it into her trunk when her husband forgot shewanted the truck and droveit to work. She REALLY wanted the compost! I have a girl crush on this lady.

If she wanted it so bad, why did she say that she might just leave it in the trunk when she gets her new Mustang in about six weeks?

There was no mention of the quality or composition of the compost. Compost creates compost tea which will cause the trunk pan to rust. Vehicle trunks are usually closed off on one side by the seat back of the rear seat which is generally some type of hard cardboard covered in felt or fabric of some…

Compost is decaying/decayed vegetable matter, which may or may not have some worms crawling around in it. Great stuff for the garden, not so great for the trunk of a Mustang. I wouldn’t do it, but then I take care of my cars better than this.

I think this was the funniest segment in a long while. After saying she couldn’t name her husband’s employer and went on to say a Mustang a year, my partner and I had laugh and I said GM and he said Chrysler. Anyway, compost happens because it generates heat, which is why people often say it is cook…

Finished compost is the stuff they give away. There is no tea in finished compost. There may be worms, true, just as there are worms in regular dirt. The point is that click and clack were wrong: its the same as dirt. I know this because I make my own and I sometimes have a truckload delivered. …

Also finished compost doesn’t generate heat, so there’s no safety issue. You can buy compost in hardware stores.

Ok, for the record compost is not dirt, however given they way it is made it may contain significant quaitities of dirt. Compost is largely organic matter in an advanced state of decay. Yummy! Dirt, or more appropriately “soil”, means mineral soil. For the non-math/science kids in the room that i…

Um, yeah, filed under “S” for “Sez you”. A lot of the grass in my front yard is rooted in previous generations of grass in addition to all the rocky stuff. Plus squirrel carcasses, etc. N.B. none of this will ever be converted into petroleum by migrating thousands of feet down into the Earth. If…

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nebin January 1, 2012, 5:30am 7

compost usually has a large amount of fungus in it… it may cause a fungus problem in the rug.

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