Garden clearance Merton: how to make garden waste work for you

All summer long, I throw green, sappy cuttings and vegetable peelings into the manure bin at the finish of the garden clearance Merton. Every autumn – ideally on one of those cool, brittle days that are just made for digging.

I turn it out and find strata of deep brown, brittle compost under the top layer of unrated leek tops and onion skins, to spread on my borders.

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It is a beautiful, easy system: waste turns into nutrients to feed the garden, and bulk to get better the soil, which produces more growth, which ultimately goes back into the manure bin.

The circle is closed. It is important you do not put anything in your green garden waste storage bin or sacks that we cannot use.  But not all waste is so easy.

Does everyone have a chipper to cut up woody pruning and turn them into mulch? I’m quite sure not. And what on soil do you all do with the roots of couch grass and bindweed? I think the answer is attractive and straightforward.

We send them off in the green committee bin, or we save them up in an unattractive pile and drive them to the tip. Or, if our allocation committees or washing-line schedules let us get away with it, we make a fire and blaze them.

But I do not want to cart mine away. I like the closed circle, and it is not just a hippy affectation. Growth clears nutrients from the soil.

And if we later burn or cart this off, we have to restore those nutrients by shipping in fertilizers and organic stuff from elsewhere.

It is a less green way of gardening, certain, but it is also more complicated and time-consuming: a lose-lose condition. Here are a pair of neat ways I have found to turn problem waste into a benefit.

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Pondweed bins

Perennial weeds are a big problem for me. While we have lastly (after seven years on the allotment) beaten the couch grass back to a point where we can fool ourselves we have the upper hand, those roots do keep on coming.

Couch grass, bindweed, and dandelions all have broad, white, importunate roots. But even the tiniest part of a root into the compost and it will spring into life and send its roots out through the whole thing else in there.

The best answer I have found is to go down them. Those roots are stores of energy, so they take a long time to expire. But dunked for more than a few months in dustbins complete with water, they finally rot down into a compostable paste.

But what of all the nutrients those weeds took from the dirt? The water turns rich and nutritious and starts to smell horrible.

It can be used in its raw form as a “weed tea” – a fertilizer to be diluted and watered onto plants. But I’m trying something else too: floating duckweed on the top.

Scooped from the pond and added to my weed bins, the duckweed is right at garden clearance Merton. It loves the nutrient-rich water and gorges itself on it (which also helps to keep the stink down), quickly spreading to cover the water.

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It is also a huge addition to the compost heap – just skim it off the surface and dump it on the pile, leaving a few pieces behind to re-grow.

Or just put it straight onto the dirt as a mulch. Once out of the water, the duckweed rapidly dies. But it keeps weeds down and adds large organic stuff – enchantment for dirt structure – and, of course, those nutrients.

Dead hedge

What to do with woody pruning from trees, shrubs, and perennials, other than burning them? I have made it into a dead hedge.

In fact, I have made several: I am to some extent addicted and have two at the allotment and one at the house.

It is a very easy idea. You push two parallel lines of stakes into the ground, between 30-60cm apart. And throw your pruning into the space between them.

While this does not return nutrients to the garden clearance services in Merton with any great speed. It does serve more than a few functions.

It deals with this type of waste, above all, and also creates a beautiful screen. I love the look as the variety of layers of twigs build up, reminiscent of a rammed dirt wall.

All those nooks, crannies, and stems create a wonderful, stable home for wildlife. Plus it does slowly rot down: although I frequently pile clippings onto my dead hedges, none ever completely runs out of space for more.

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Both solutions keep the waste within the garden clearance, Merton. Rather than sending it off to the tip, which cuts down work.

And every augments the garden in some way, turning my problem waste into something beautiful and/or helpful.

More nifty ways with garden clearance Merton

Composting Add all your vegetable peelings and green waste to a bog-standard compost bin. Cooked food, meat, dairy, and eggs want to be kept out, though, or you’ll attract rats.

A good equilibrium of green, silly waste and something to soak it up, such as cardboard, makes for happy, simple compost.

Hot composting The storage bin is designed to heat up to temperatures that make it safe to add cooked food. Some, used well, can get temperate sufficient that they will kill recurrent weed roots. But few make any promises on this.

You store kitchen waste – cooked, meat and all – covered with bokashi grains in a sealed basket for two weeks. Then add it to your usual compost bin or straight to the surface of the dirt. The pickling process makes the waste break down into compost very quickly and renders it unpleasant to rats.

Wormeries are another way to compost uncooked and cooked kitchen scraps. These make a well, rich compost that is good for containers. Try the Worm Cafe or the Tiger Wormer. Omlet, the makers of the Eglu chicken coop, have just launched the Hungry Bin.

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