[gremlin]

I think it will be hard work to burn. Too soggy and smoky.
Digging it deep sounds good, but hard work too.  I would just bury the sticks, and dig the better stuff lightly in.   Providing you don't then  plant something that is a pain to weed, like onions, just deal with the weeds bit by bit as they come up.  It takes 5 years to get a plot weed free.  I have finally beaten my bindweed and horsetails by hand weeding every time they pop up. Yay !

[ilan]

I would put it into builders rubble sacks , pulling out all the very woody bits to burn( any thing over pencil thickness) put any weed roots into another for the council to compost and it looks like a fair few stones in there as well. any usable compost /earth can then be kept for a year or so then either used as a multch in summer if dry or spread in september /october on the plot when any viable seeds will be killed by frosts before the roots get deep enough to survive or dry out

[hanssg]

I have 2 dalek bins in garden emptied them on wed sorted out the good stuff got about 50 litres out not bad

[pawlitan]

Well, we attacked it over this weekend (weather too foul previous weekend!) and evidently the previous tenants had no idea what they were doing! There were FULL BUSHES in there (intact) as well as a load of plastic bits, netting etc. All pretty useless... at least we'll get a good load of wood ash off the bonfire!

[Christine]

Oh don't you just love allotment tenants with no idea. Maybe they were just using the area as a rubbish dump rather than taking stuff away to the tip or burning themselves.

[steved]

Whateer you do, dont  burn the plastic bits, its even worse when molten!