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composting wood chippings
Coveredinbees!!!!
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Just been trimming back a large holly bush and now I have a big pile of trimmings to get rid of. I'm going to run it all through the wood chipper. Can I compost the resulting chippings or should I just chuck it in the green bin for the bin men to take away?
Nothing to see here, move along.
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You can compost it - but it may take quite a while to rot down. Shred it as fine as you can and mix in plenty of green stuff if possible.0
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Burn it and then compost it.0
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Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »Just been trimming back a large holly bush and now I have a big pile of trimmings to get rid of. I'm going to run it all through the wood chipper. Can I compost the resulting chippings or should I just chuck it in the green bin for the bin men to take away?
They will compost eventually, but if I were you instead of composting it, I'd use it as a mulch.
Wood chippings are really good at keeping down weeds... and as they rot down they release chemicals that feed your plants at the same time.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
If you are putting it through the wood chipper then it should compost quite nicely. Mine usually composted quite well.I can afford anything that I want.
Just so long as I don't want much.0 -
So long as the compost is less than 1/3 woody material, it should compost down, but might take an age. It will, as suggested above, make excellent mulch0
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We used ours as mulch, it took a long time to break down. Great stuff. We had loads but I wish we hadn't given so much away.0
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Mulching is a good idea I'll do that, thanks.Nothing to see here, move along.0
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