What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Our green waste collection stops just before Christmas and starts again at the end of January.

 

Don't want to upset you but our green waste (includes kitchen waste - even meat etc.) is collected every week of the year - and all collections are free.

Some years back they tried charging for it and, before they started, I told them it would be a failure. It turned out to be much more costly for them to clear up the dumped recycling from the roadsides than it was to give a free collection. They should have studied the local social media groups (I sent them links) who were calling for the dumping of green waste as a protest.

When they started it again their green waste figures went back up and helped the authority hit their targets. I think there's a possibility that it may happen again if the council cut back their spending because of Coronavirus (none of the officers that were in the department in those days are still there, so there won't be any memory of what happened).

 

I've been hacking at the ground to break up the compaction of heavy machinery again, all along the patio this time and shifting mud from top of garden to level up the ground to patio edge. Back breaking stuff!
Only annoying thing is not being able to germinate grass seed to get the lawn going. Can't seem to find anywhere here with a stock of turf and I'm not paying delivery charges on it!

 

Well, nothing, in this world, is free as it's all worked into the overall cost of the Rates but it's the same here, there's no separation between General Rates and Green Waste collection so it's just included in the overall annual rates. I don't mind that there's no green waste collection just before Christmas until the end of January as, by then, everything is tidied and sorted in the garden and, anyway 99% of my garden waste goes in the Compost Bins and then back onto the borders.

 

Thanks, both

I'm pretty sure that they have included it in our council tax as it is certainly high enough - so one way or another they make us pay for it. That's why people have protested in the past. They also have a waste lorry that tours the villages every Sunday from April until November so that people can take their green waste to that site in the village. That saves the 20 mile round trip to the nearest collection centre.

We have an enormous amount of green waste and have five large compost heaps. We also have two large green waste bins and the heavier stuff gets burnt on the bonfire.

We still manage to fill the wheelie bins all through the winter Our neighbour, on one side, puts all his grass cuttings on our compost heaps and we use his wheelie bin for some of the nasty weeds (we have an overabundance of those! ). As each household is only allowed one green wheelie bin I have a special licence for my second one (after being inspected to see how much recycling we already do and how wildlife friendly we keep the garden ).

 

We have a two Bin (Grey and Green), and a two box (Red and Green) waste collection system. Grey Bin for non-recyclable, Green Bin for Garden Waste, Red Box for plastic, metal. paper, cardboard, Green Box for glass. They have supplied us with a small brown box for food waste but my Parents were not high income and used to make marvellous meals out of basically nothing so, as there's no waste food in this Household, maybe their ingenuity has led to me not wasting food.!!
My friends in Manchester have, I think, up to 6 differently coloured Bins, (perhaps two of those being substitutes for boxes), but that's an awful lot of bins to have to store somewhere.
I think my Garage is also a "Waste" collection point as I have a lot of stuff in there that I've kept over the years "as I might need it later". But it's rare that I don't find something in the Garage that isn't a solution to a mechanical/electrical/practical problem; even yesterday I had to delve into my "National" Collection of Nuts/Bolts and Screws to find some 30 year old nuts to fit some newly bought U Bolts whose Nuts were faulty