community compost

[salome2001]

has anyone used this? What sort of quality do you find it to be?

[rustylady]

Not sure what you mean. Our council used to sell compost/soil conditioner but I don't think they do any more.

[Currysniffa]

You can get soil conditioner at our council tip, £2 a bag, I've not used it but a lady on the lottie uses bags of it, I my use it for my toms once the wormery starts producing the black gold to mix with it.

[Snadger]

Its OK. We had some delivered for nowt to the allotments but the geriatric weedwatchers grabbed most of it.
I managed to grab a couple of wheelbarrows full before they plundered the lot and was reasonably well impressed.I DID inherit quite a few different weed species that I didn't have before, some lupins grew and a privet bush! Apart from this, it did a great job as a soil conditioner!

[salome2001]

It's the council compost. Bristol City council doesn't do it but we're close enough to South Gloucestershire to blag theirs... it's the garden and food waste composted and sieved (apparently). They will deliver to the lot (by the 3-5 ton, and they charge) or you can go to the site with a shovel and help yourself.
I will take Snadger's caveat in mind... though how I'd recognise any NEW weeds on this plot I don't know...

[zazen999]

I've had 2 batches; the stuff from Oxford was rubbish [literally] - we were pulling old bits of aluminium and rubber out - but Coventry stuff is brilliant. In fact it had more nutrients in it when we did a soil test just before Christmad, than the john innes No3 that they also had stashed on site.

[salome2001]

well I took myself off to the bins in the car park of the local community centre and there wasn't much there, but enough to fill 12 rubble bags (about all you can fit in a honda jazz). it looks ok, a bit dry but looks like brown plant material with no rubbish. i figure it has to do some good on my heavy clay.`

[rustylady]

Hopefully it will do some good, and if it's free why not get some. I wish our council still did it.

[phil the shed]

ours ends all there waste to vital earth in ashbourne....
we throw it away
and then
have to pay to get it back..

[salome2001]

ours ends all there waste to vital earth in ashbourne....
we throw it away
and then
have to pay to get it back..

... don't forget you had to pay for it to be taken away as well!!!

[Two_Sheds]

we throw it away
and then
have to pay to get it back..

So don't throw it away: compost your own garden "waste"

Saves money, saves fuel ...


Our council doesn't take garden waste or compost. All our kitchen scraps go in the daleks, and shrub prunings too. Big bits of wood from the shrubs/trees is sawn into 12" bits and put on the chiminea, then the ash goes on the fruit beds

[salome2001]

true Two Sheds... I am just happy taking what others can't be bothered to use!!! at least there is a garden waste service!!!

[Poolcue]

I get mine from our recycling centre.I take lots of my allotment weeds there and I always come back with their heat treated stuff.The price is right and I just use it as a soil improver.