General Chat

OH had a huge job cutting the grass as he had sprayed 'weeder-feeder' on the front and back lawns. You have to leave it for a couple of weeks and then of course you have brown blotches all over the lawn. For some reason clover has taken hold of all the lawns in region. It's flourishing and looks lovely and green but we don't want it in the lawn. Luckily the stuff OH sprayed has killed it off. I wish that the young couple next door - as lovely as they are - would keep their weeds in check. They are moving into our lawn:-(

S x

We don't get a garden refuse bin in our area . Is it for the sorts of things one would put into compost ?

That's a shame Tec - maybe another time.

S x

The family next door to us (who are lovely) don't cut their lawns as often as they should and they are infested with dandelions, OH is paranoid about not having them in our lawn

Yes Amanda - It's for everything you would normally put in a compost heap, including waste food. I don't have a compost heap here as my garden isn't big enough really. The Council take it to their own compost making unit - no idea what they do with it.

Tec.

We are not allowed to put any waste food in ours at all Tec, just garden waste.
We have the compost heaps on the allotment, i put the kitchen waste into a bucket in the garage and we take it down evry time we go

Hopefully they make it into compost then Tec ...lol

We have a big compost bin in the garden and a heap on the allotment . When my bin gets so full that I can't get anything else into it , OH has to shovel it into bags and we take it to the allotment . He calls it " celebrity compost " because we are never quite sure what will appear out of it ....lol

I don't altogether approve of waste food going into the garden waste bin because it's only collected once a fortnight - not very nice in the hot weather. We don't actually throw much food away, but I'm sure some people do, especially those with little children.

Tec.

They probably sell it Tec. We have 3 bins. Normal household rubbish, a recycling bin and a green waste bin. We don't have veggie or fruit waste because that goes into the worm farm and as we don't eat much meat etc. there's very little waste food.

The young couple next to us have a garden bordering our lawn. It was put there by the last owners and has some lovely shrubs but they do nothing with it and we have had their dandelions spreading into our lawn as well as some other weeds. OH gets annoyed but he sprayed some weed-killer on some of the weeds he could get to without killing the other plants. They also have a lot of grass growing out of the cracks in the pavement. They are so nice we wouldn't dream of complaining to them but it does get annoying.

S x

What I meant was Linda, is that I don't know what the Council do with the compost once they've made it - as far as I know they don't sell it.

Tec.

It wasn't me who asked Tec,
Our council bag it up and sell it as well as using it for the parks departments

A friend of ours has a neighbour who had a tree lopping company cut down some trees. Our friend asked if she could have some wood chippings from the machine they used. They said they would be happy to and left 40 bags on the drive-way:-))

S x

well that would keep the weeds down

Poor lady Sue lol - maybe she could sell it as a mulch to her neighbours.

Now I am apparently going for a moonlit stroll - himself has sat up - he normally does when I'm watching the news lol.

Tec.

well at least you have a better night for it

She offered us some but we just have no use for it as our garden is well mulched. I thought it couldn't be used when freshly chipped. Another friend goes to the local stables for fresh manure and he swears by it for the garden.

S x

We get horse manure for the allotment.

Does it smell when you spread it around? We use chicken manure. We have a local egg seller who also sells bags of manure. Useful critters those chickens:-))

S x

We let it stand for several months in a heap so it breaks down before we use it, it is fine then

It's a lovely night - clear sky with thousands of stars, but no moon. If it wasn't dark, it would be sunny.

I buy tubs of chicken pellets - chicken manure made into pellets - very civilised.

Tec.