My family has a modest vegetable garden, and we compost from our kitchen year round in order to have enriched soil. Sometimes food trimmings are not fully composted when we mix them into the soil in the Spring. When there are seeds in the compost, plants can grow unexpectedly. While weeding my garden one day I pulled up what turned out to be an avocado sapling. What should be done in this situation? Should one keep fruit pits out of one’s compost in order to prevent such occasions?
Answer:
There is no need to keep the fruit pits out of the compost, and the sapling should not be uprooted if it will be able to bear fruit.
For fruit trees, the prohibition is only to graft them with another type of fruit.
Best wishes.
