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Currently, am storing them in old compost sacks as I dont have a compost heap/bin yet (would like a darlek really to keep it neat) - planning on getting ont ASAP, but is it alright just sat in the compost bags? If I add veg peelings, etc to it, and browns will that help - then just dump the lot in the bin when I get it?
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It might go as bit slimey and smelly... I sometimes use ours as a mulch especially round the raspberriesLast edited by binley100; 26-04-2010, 08:31 PM.S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
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I don't get enough to do much with of our own but I begged the neighbour's off him last year to put round my no dig spuds and he has started to do it again for me this year. Work a treat.Comment
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I'm using it, layered with horse manure and chicken coop cleanings, to make up the base of my raised beds. I also use it as a mulch, and for earthing up spuds.
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mulch....keeps the cats off when it's fresh too.Comment
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Yep, us too - thats grass clippings over the spuds that is.Originally posted by Sanjo
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Use it as a mulch. Especially over spuds. That is what I am going to do this year - need to get hubbie to cut the grass again. Leaving it in black bags will make it go slimey and smell no matter what you add.Comment
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Our eat the clippings and then come inside to be sickOriginally posted by taff View Post
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Mulch mulch mulch mulch. One of those words that sounds more and more daft the more you say it.
I'd suggest taking it out of the bags, as binley said, it'll probably go a bit slimey and smelly. On our allotment we have a massive mound of the stuff delivered every now and then - and if you're downwind of it it can stink! The bottom/centre of it goes a black slimey sludge. Not sure what it's used for - but I sometimes use some of the top layer for mulching.A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/
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won't it blow away?
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Not with a thick enough layer.Originally posted by chrismarks View Postwon't it blow away?
I thought the same when I first started using it. Then was surprised how much actually stayed. I found mice had taken up shelter in one mulched bed!
Some will blow away, but as it rots it seems to bind - somehow.A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/
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i always put ours in the village compost cos i thought if i used it on the garden it would just grow as MORE grass! is that not the case then?Comment
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Grass roots will grow on, especially couch grass (or which I have loads if you want any............) but the green bits won't form plants so no need to worry.Originally posted by Scottishnewbie View Post
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
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well i guess i should stop losing valuable mulch then eh??? so do i just lay it on the ground or do i need something underneath first?Originally posted by Alison View PostComment
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