allotment fire

 we went to my Daughters allotment on Sunday to clear up and burn all the rubbish that had been collected through the summer months because  we are only aloud to burn rubbish on that allotments once a year in November

so I started the fire now this allotments is surrounded by residential houses quite posh properties so its important not to let the smoke encroach on those houses so the fire's lit the smokes going away from the properties its all good

THEN  the wind changed and OHMY [ ] and the smoke is heading in the direction of the houses and when i say smoke it was smoke but before i could sort the fir out I had a very unhappy man come walking up the allotment path and told me to put the fire out as it was smoking out the houses I apologised for the smoke and put the fire out forthwith

he then informed me he was the allotment secretary who lived across the road in one of the properties and was getting smoked out so I held my hands up to lighting the fire not intending to smoke the properties I  was not happy with his attitude towards this matter as I had apologised for this happing but as it was my Daughters allotment I had to bite my tongue  I  explained to him that because of the location of the allotment it was not acceptable for anyone to burn any garden rubbish at any time and low and behold he agreed with me and  said that the committee had already endorsed the banning of fires on the allotment next year so he would recommend to the allotment committee that a total ban be enforced for next year

so at least we both agreed on something and to completely ban fires  makes it fair for all and no arguments so watch this space

We're surrounded by houses now,  as well. We weren't but then the council built houses all around us so now we have new rules and can't have fires 
The trouble is that the council contractors only cut the top and the outside of the beech hedges, and tenants have to cut the insides, themselves. How are they supposed to get rid of the branches, if they can't burn them? No skips provided here. Makes me soo cross
 

A good shredder would be useful if you had an electricity supply there.

Hello I hire a heavy duty domestic shippeshredder r for £45 first day £25 a day after that or or £90 Friday 3pm to Monday 9am it takes 3 inch through the chipper unit,as for burning unless the laws changed pernicious weeds and notifiable diseases have to be destroyed by burning,we had 3000 rose bushes recently got fire blight at a nursery ,a 12 foot by 8 foot hole was dug 4 feet deep  4 bales of straw went in then the Rose's and pots laid on top another layer of straw a gallon of diesel  and a match  it was allowed to  burn for  4 hours  then quick lined and the hole filled in   jezza

that's well worth mentioning Jezza never thought of pernicious weeds and notifiable diseases  that have to be destroyed by burning so it looks like it mite be a better option to get the allotment waste taken to the re-cycle centre?

Do you have community/municipal composting over there? A option to burning could be collecting the waste (no building materials or trash) and sending it to off-site composting.

Here, the city comes by once every 2 months to collect all types of leaf and limb waste, going to composting.

Here in the UK, there was an awful lot of damage from Aminopyralid, a herbicide, which was still present in commercial composts made from garden waste collection sites. Many people including me are still very wary of buying anything that includes 'green waste materials'.

Sorry to hear that municipal composting had so many problems over there.  Our local compost facility's only problem is selling so much compost that the supply sometimes runs short. They have a regimen of rigorous quality testing. Landscapers and gardeners love the stuff.