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Early Blight Infected Mulch

I have a raised bed that was planted with tomatoes for the first time this year. I mulched the bed with wheat straw trying to avoid the early blight. No luck. I trashed the tomato vines but my question relates to the mulch. Early Blight spores can remain in the soil for a number of years. I do not want to compost the mulch because I can never seem to maintain a hot enough compost pile. My question is, would you suggest:

1. Trashing the wheat mulch that is probably infected with the early blight spores.

2. Just work the mulch into the soil in that bed (which is already infected with the early blight spores) and just rotate the tomatoes out of that bed for a few years.

3. Throw the mulch on some part of my yard where I am not growing vegetables.

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