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Garden waste...how do you deal with yours?

AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 4,871
edited March 2018 in Problem solving
I am wondering how you all organise and manage your garden waste. 

Garden waste...how do you deal with yours? 56 votes

Council garden waste bin only
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Loraine3floraltipsBeaus MumYviesteviemadpenguinDavid WMyosotis23Kitty 2Dave HumbyKiliBright starRP32LLMTulip18dave125Hertsgardenman 16 votes
Compost it only
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[Deleted User]StevedaylillypansyfaceWaysideFishy65AndyDeanMaddiValleysgirlgreengoldlandscapingny 9 votes
Be super organised and divide into piles for shredding, composting etc.
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FritillaryObelixxMuddyForkLizzie27Bee witchedLynCebenutcutletTopbirdSinging GardenerBlue OnionBeefleyplant pauper[Deleted User]WorcesterParkFiremicearguersBijdezeeHelix 19 votes
Other
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AuntyRachDovefromaboveBusy-LizziePete.8Papi JoLiriodendronGarden noobDaisy33LG_SkandiNick74sevbrown 12 votes
My garden and I live in South Wales. 
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 33,678
    Our lovely council have given us a nice big chunky wheely bin for garden waste ,which , in over 6 years I've never used.
    We have to put our kitchen rubbish, including food waste by the roadside in plastic bags. I think it's to make it easier for foxes, cats, crows etc to rip open and spread about.
    Devon.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 4,871
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    I have noticed that for the last few years, since having a bigger garden, I am a bit overwhelmed with the amount of garden 'waste' I produce. I fill my garden recycle bin, have a wood/twig pile and two compost bins but I still have so much! My compost bins are very slow and a bit difficult to manage plus I keep forgetting to prep stuff to add - so I will make more of an effort this year. I just find that I fill a wheelbarrow or tub of 'bits' then it seems a faff to sort it. Hoping you will have ideas, or just share the pain...
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 33,678
    I'm very lucky to have lots of room. I have a record 80, yes eighty builders' dumpy sacks on the go this year. Anything too woody is dropped down the bank by the lake to rot , provide habitat, at leisure.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,724
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    We compost most vegetable kitchen and garden waste, but we don't have a shredder so prickly raspberry canes and perennial weeds go in the garden waste bin which is collected fortnightly throughout the year ... we pay around £40 p a for this bin.  
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 33,678
    I think it's £35 a year for ours, but it's just used to store the plastic sacks we put cardboard in . Once they're full they go out for recycling.
    Devon.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 4,871
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    80 sacks!! Wowsers!! Do you mean that you use them as composters? 
    I have a couple of woody/twiggy piles which are left to nature at the bottom of garden, behind some trees and I like to think they can be wildlife havens etc. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 4,871
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    My garden bin is "free" - but as the council tax is £££ then so it should be. Suppose at least you can choose not to have one if you pay separately.
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 33,678
    @AuntyRach, I layer up grass clippings and wood chippings in them. I leave them over the winter and they're ready to use as mulch . 
    Devon.
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Two compost bins and two council bins which are emptied monthly from March-November.
    SW Scotland
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 4,871
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    That's a great idea @Hostafan1
    I have a couple of those so will try it, as my compost bins are a bit rubbish (no pun intended!) Thank you 😊 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
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