Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: pwgun on March 08, 2007, 21:56
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My council contract states that i cannot have a bonfire on my plot. Is this common for most allotments. Is an incinerator(looks like a metal bin) a way around this rule as i have seen a couple on site, or are they just pushing their luck? :D
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We can have them but not too big or smokey and can't be left unattended, etc. I guess the others on your site are just pushing their luck, but done right an incinerator makes very little smoke :wink:
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we can have fires but theres a time limit you cant have one between 10 am and 6 pm
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My council contract states that i cannot have a bonfire on my plot.
Probably setting myself up here .... I reckon a bonfire is a big waste of fertility. I'll concede that I don't have brambles or waste wood but almost anything else can be composted, or drowned, or dried, or mulched and the fertility retained.
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so you compost brassicas with clubroot dave or blighted spuds or toms :?
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so you compost brassicas with clubroot dave or blighted spuds or toms :?
I wouldn't no. Lucky enough not to have clubroot, don't grow tomatoes and blighted spuds go in the scaffy bucket.
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and all those letters with your bank details etc get burnt with the clubroot :wink:
whats a scaffy bucket dave ?
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whats a scaffy bucket dave ?
Slipped into the vernacular, sorry. The dustbin. A large plastic vessel emptied at irregular intervals by the municipal authority. :D
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arrr a wheelie bin thingymjig :lol:
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and all those letters with your bank details
Shredded for my composting worms. They don't seem to mind the red ink.
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dont trust those shredders i have a image of all these russian sticking your bank statements back together :lol:
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bonfires are open fires not closed in an incinerator folks
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our council letter just says fires
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in it a pain in tha ass when councils allow something other nimbys dont . real jerks must run the councils
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you can have a barbi though
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We are not allowed to have fires on our site. The council provide a skip, but the sub-contractors are not very good at emptying it. I'll inform the council by email when it's full, they let the sub-contractors know straight away, a week later it gets taken away when it has about 3 time a normal load in it. I try and anticipate a week in advance now!
They've recently written to all the plot holders asking if it would be a good idea if they emptied the skip themselves, shredded the contents and then brought the shreddings back for composting, as this would save them money.
I pointed out to them the inherent problems with club root, blight etc. as mentioned earlier. Not heard a thing since!
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Muntjac, you are thinking on the same lines as i am. Play with the wording of the letter "BONfire" and i will have good argument if any complaints.
The thought of Barbecued couch grass is just setting my taste buds on fire??!!!!????!!! :D