First and foremost, if you compost dog waste, DO NOT use that compost where you’re going to be growing vegetables. Use it for your flower garden (but not where you have edible flowers that you might put on a salad). Along those same lines, put your doggie composting area at least 15 feet from your veggie garden (preferably on the downhill side), since you don’t want contaminates leaching over into your food. This is a CITY gardening post, but if anyone reading this has a well, make sure that you keep it from leaching into your well water. (I would say “Try not to think about it”, but thinking about it is exactly what we need to do. But hey, it beats stepping in it every time you go out back.)

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