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Council has suspended garden waste collections and local tips are closed. Any ideas on how to dispose of it? A typical weekend fills the large brown plastic bins.
I could burn it but since everyone is indoors I don't want to upset neighbours.
Already have 2 large compost heaps that are nearly full.
Do a bit less gardening?
You're gonna need 3 large compost heaps then. Or just don't garden.
Can you give the heaps you have a bit of a turn and re-piling to make a little room. They like to be given a bit of movement anyway.
Just going through the same here. Garden waste has built up a bit. I think I will be building another compost heap. Just need to find a space for it
My favourite gardening toy is my Titan Shredder from Screwfix
It allows me to fit entire trees in a wheelie bin.
Burn it in the garden. None of the neighbours will come around to complain.
Our green bin is now a compost heap, full to the brim and unlikely to be collected for months....
Dig a hole and bury it.
Then dig another hole to bury the excess earth from the first hole etc etc etc
Should keep you busy for a while.
Sorry....
Just buy some daleks (or make a compost heap out of some pallets/old wood) and compost it. In a few months you'll have really good compost to grow veg/flowers in.
Just remember to mix greens and browns. Also water it/ pour some wee in it every now and again. We put all our fruit/veg/tea bags in ours.
We've found old cooked corn on the cobs/ egg shells attract rats, so we've stopped composting these.
Burn prunings, leave grass cuttings on the lawn, worry about other shit.
Pulp it and make your own toilet paper. Try and pick a few of the thorns out first.
The pile we created has been drying nicely in the sun and I'll burn ASAP while people still have windows shut at night. Will trim the hedge and get that dry and burned too. I put the mulching plug thing in the mower (so it doesn't collect) and will just leave on the lawn - if you don't have one just leave the box off. Think it's time to build a proper compost heap too.
Burn it all. Pollution levels are at their lowest ever so no better time.
Slight hi-jack, does your local council charge for garden waste removal?
About 4 years ago mine did (Gateshead), started off at £20 for 18 collections now around £33 for 15.
EDIT - just checked they are suspended
throw it over the hedge like i do( theres a field there though not a garden )
Bag it; keep in garden until normal service resumes.
Ours got emptied today - think it is likely to be scaled back. Will give the compost bin a poke
+1 compost and just leave the grass alone, hopefully have see some wildflowers eventually that’ll be good for wildlife
Don't burn it! My neighbour who has COPD was hospitalised after various local gardeners decided to burn their wet and green garden waste.In the current health crisis that could mean a death sentence for her.
ours got collected today, bloody idiots forgot to take the plastic though which was sat next to the cardboard/paper that they did empty.
Slight hi-jack, does your local council charge for garden waste removal?
Mine (Perth and Kinross) charge £35 for the year, with uplifts on a Sunday every fortnight.
I’ve got a fairly large plastic box that arrived in kit form for my compost, which small amounts of green kitchen waste and garden trimmings go into. It’s pretty full, now, but that’s the great thing about compost, as you chuck stuff in, turning it over now and then, it collapses allowing more stuff to go in. Mine’s about a metre on a side, so holds a fair bit. Turning it over is a bit of a chore, but I’ve got a special tool to help; my late step-dad had an old garden fork kicking around that he’d somehow managed to break a tine of off, God knows how, plus the opposite outer tine was bent, so I cut that one off, filed the broken end of the other one smooth, replaced the rotten ‘T’-piece of the handle with one I carved out of a chunk of wood and pinned it, and what is now a small pitchfork is perfect for turning over the compost.
Going to need a fair bit of it soon, there’s a long flower bed between two walls under my Acer tree that needs the daffs clearing out and the soil replenishing with a load of compost for next year.
Nice to have a large ready supply that’s cost nothing other than the container.
Once I would have had access to a load of pallets, but no longer, sadly.
I do have a pile of Leylandii trimmings where I’ve just cut a load of long shoots growing out of the top of the two hedges, and I need to trim the main hedges back, but getting rid of that is going to be a problem, now the local recycling centres are closed.
I suppose I could chop it into manageable lengths, bag it and stick it into the back of the car and take it out to where the local pikeys dump all their hedge trimmings, nobody’s going to notice a couple of small extra piles on top of the several tonnes that are already there...
Regarding the council, they used to take it away, then asked the residents what they’d prefer, free collections three or four times a year, or monthly with a £40/year charge, or bi-monthly for about £20. Everyone voted for bi-monthly, the council went ahead with monthly and a £40 charge.
Democracy in action, clearly. Still, the bin is handy for putting hard trimmings into to keep them dry until I can burn them.
I think our collectiosn will continue, but if not we'll just leave some piles as bug hotels and stop mowing the lawn for a bit.
If your mower has a mulching blade on it then mulch all the waste. Then spread it at the base of a hedge. It soon breaks down providing nutrients for the hedge. It's what I've done on a few hedge cutting jobs in the past as I have an old mulching lawnmower specifically for that task. Saves me having to lift the waste away consequently reducing the customer's bill. Don't burnt it. There's no need.
I just cut my hedge hours before the lock down. I have 5 dustbins full of hedge...it will just sit and fester until the tip opens. I would consider burning it after a few weeks of dry weather, but it would ruin the lawn and I don't agree with stinking dirty bonfires. On top of that the binmen accidentally missed a full wheelie bin of household waste on Friday so I'm probably going to end up emptying the recycling into the garage to free up the other wheelie bin for rubbish that the pets and foxes would spread over the street!
Bag it, please don't burn it.
Dont burn it +1