council compost

Pro-gro is the stuff I use. I've always understood that it was made by a contractor from the waste in the council's green bins but I may be wrong on that. It's certified by the Soil Association, for what that's worth.

JWK has obviously had a bad but very specific problem this year with Aminopyralid but you can never know what's in compost or soil conditioner unless you cook it up yourself.

 

Flinty, not sure where Mist lives. Maybe you can only get Pro-gro in Hants? You get flint in Hants? Must be a chalky soil. Come down to the coast. It's clay and you can improve that LoL

 

In general council greenwaste is composted down and used for industrial land reclamation.

Having seen first hand the cra* that goes it in this is by farr the best place for it.

 

I'm not so sure that all these companies use heat to sterilize their composts one batch I obtained did smell of chemicals, when I had used it my hans flared up and were itching, must have been a reaction to the chemicals.

 

Loofah, there`s only one question you need to ask them, and that is, " Can you guarantee it`s disease free " ? And the answer you`ll get is, " no ".

 

Loofah
You was asking about the 'wind-row system'
OK here goes, as used in the water treatment industry Windrow is simple a way of removing as much moisture as possible by piling the media in rows, like earthing up your potato, These rows may be 3 to 4 metres high. This must be done on a free draining area usually with a concrete base. This allows maximum contact with any air movment and speeds drying.