Perennials: What are you sorry you planted......Part 3, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Here it is my husband who makes the compost (we have a total of six bins) and he follows the rules about grass/dead leaves/household scraps. Well made compost only has an earthy quality for a "smell" and doesn't wreak like piles of fresh grass clippings do.

One garden guest, on our first involvement with the local garden tour, insisted he could smell the manure in the compost. We have never used manure in the compost and told him so but he insisted so we just ignored him.