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# Compost

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# do not plant

Department warns about unsolicited seeds being sent by post

People are advised not to plant or compost any seeds they did not order.

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Aug 5th 2020, 10:55 PM

Voices

From the Garden: How to make your own compost - you can learn from my mistakes

I have had some God-awful compost heaps over the years – slimey, smelly, sludgy yokes that festered away in the corner of the garden, writes Michael Kelly.

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Jan 12th 2019, 1:00 PM

# Reunited

After 16 years, woman's lost wedding ring shows up... in her carrot

A Swedish woman thought her wedding ring had been thrown out in 1995 – but found it growing around a vegetable in her garden.

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Jan 2nd 2012, 3:15 PM