I throw weeds in mine and have had no problems. The only thing that has risen from the dead once I use the final compost product in my garden beds is tomatoes (from kitchen scraps)! I had one tomato plant last year that actually grew out of an air vent in the composter and eventually produced nice tomatoes. This year I have 4 - one growing out of a different air vent and three that cropped up in my pepper bed after I added the compost. I transplanted them and they are doing better than the store bought plants.
I throw weeds in mine, too. My “composter” is an old metal food barrel drilled full of holes. I’ve been doing it that way for years without a problem.
Last year I let my chickens roam free on my lawn. They clucked picked pecked plucked all sorts of grasses. One day I looked and there were seven tomato plants growing in my lawn. The chickens had weeded around these plants exposing them. I’m not sure why they didn’t pick on them, maybe because they smell different? I tended to those lawn tomatoes till TS Irene stopped by.
Those tomatoes sure were a conversation piece. Who in their right mind would plant stuff in the middle of their lawn? A chaotic owner? LOL
I’m just curious how those tomato plants seeded themselves there.
I have had Cantelope and Tomatoes come up from compost... I call them free range plants... The Cantelope were the best I have ever tended.
I put coffee and tea grounds, bags filters and all, in mine............