You’d think with all the waste vegetable matter thrown into a compost heap, the seeds of all the fruit and veg would thrive in such a fertile environment… Not so:

A properly functioning compost pile gets hot enough that few seeds will germinate, and the chemical composition of a compost pile is simply too rich for most plants: so many nutrients are actually poison. (Remember back to your childhood when your neighbors over-fertilized, and killed, their lawn.) So compost away, seeds and all. A few seeds may tough it out, but it’s unlikely you’ll end up with a pepper plant in your compost pile.

Well well! From Re-Nest