[Jimmy Splash]

hello all,

i've got a large plot and it's going to be getting overgrown soon as the weather warms up. i need to dig up the long grass to clear spaces for more growing oppotunities but what do i do with all of what i dig up?
i cannot get to a tip because i don't drive myself and there's no other way of moving it off the plot.
there's alot to dig up so i guess i'll just have a big mound of mud and grass to store somewhere!

[mumofstig]

pile it up in a corner and in a year or 2 when it has all rotted down it will be lovely loamy soil 

[sunshineband]

pile it up in a corner and in a year or 2 when it has all rotted down it will be lovely loamy soil 

Works a treat 

[janet12000]

Does it really? I managed to clear half the lotty last year, but now working on the other bit!
So if I pile up all the rubbish in the corner it will eventually rot down?

[Hey Jude]

Correct!

[A. Fallowfield]

Got my lotty last year, all the rubbish was piled into four pallets fastened together. I had a bit of a rummage this week, it looks lovely, loamy and black underneath!

[prakash_mib]

true. the only good thing my previous owner did was to leave a pile like that which i am using now for earthing up. but beware please remove all the perennial weeds as they romp through the neglected mound and would make your life difficult. I find lots of bindweed root flesh in everyday!!

[Yorkie]

Make sure you shake the soil off the grass roots - it'll give you more capacity for the heap, and make sure you don't lose too much topsoil from you plot.

[Ivor Backache]

Another way would be to cut the sods in long thin lengths and use them as bricks to build the walls of a compost heap. Make it to fit the space you have. Simples.

[Flowerpower136]

Try and get a good mix of leafy and woody stuff.  But whatever it is, definately compost it. Lovely stuff for mulching in a year or 2.