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General => Bargains Galore => Topic started by: swapsome2002 on April 30, 2008, 00:04:37
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A newbie Hi all :)
Just something i found while surfing the net :)
Free woodchippings for certain areas, hope these are useful to some one :)
http://www.ringwood.gov.uk/News_and_Weather/2008/January/Free-Wood-Chippings-and-Mulch-for-Ringwood-Residents.html
http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/news/news.htm?mode=10&pk_news=254
http://www.laws.sandwell.gov.uk/ccm/content/sandwelldirect/environmentdirect/cleanup/woodchippings.en;jsessionid=b88Mn_4onjT8
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I get all the wood chip I want from my local tree surgeon.
He normally has to pay the council to tip them.
I get chips for nothing, he saves £38 every time.
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hiya, swapsome, welcome to the site, no good for us but I'm sure someone can use the links ;D
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Hi no use to me either but thought might be for others :)
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my council delivers them free to us aswell, we got stacks the other day
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Hi Sawpsome and welcome to the site...
;D
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What do you do with them, apart from paths?
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thats all I used mine for was paths along my raised beds
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Hi does anyone know if you can get them up in the north east?
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Use mine for mulching the garden in the spring and mulching the plot over winter - just dig 'em in in the spring for water retention as i'm on sandy soil.
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we mulch around all the fruit trees and bushes :)
wish we could get loads delivered to us, we have to bag it and drive 5 miles for it, but at least we don't pay for it ;D
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Hi Manicscousers
We got some fine woodchippings from a factory - broom handles that had been put through a shredder. I thought someone had said they used on their fruit bushes, it must have been you.
Can I pick your brains? I was going to put them around my autumn raspberries, but then some people on here think that's a bad idea - have you tried this?
cj :)
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hiya, calamityjane, don't know what your broom handles would've been treated with or what wood..I'd be a bit wary .. :-\
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Hmmmmm never thought of that!
I think they were just bare wood, but maybe I'd best use them on the paths.
Thanks ;)
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Anybody know a free source in the southwest?
Tricia
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Hi does anyone know if you can get them up in the north east?
Hi Tracyr2
We recently picked some up from our local tree surgeon just outside of Durham. Only cost a donation to the lads Xmas party fund! ;D
We managed to put some down in between the raised beds as paths.
Mushy Pea
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What do you do with them, apart from paths?
Ramial chipped wood, mulch & growing mushrooms.
If anyone is having difficulty finding a source then just phone your local tree surgeon they will usually be happy to drop them off by the lorryload as they have to pay to dump them.
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Hi mushy pea i have searched the internet etc for a tree surgeon near darlington without avail, do you have the name of the one you got the chippings from?
Thanks
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Ramial ???
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Ramial Chipped Wood is a mycoremediation technique. It is explained here:
http://www.dirtdoctor.com/view_org_research.php?id=69
Before you ask mycoremediation is a form of bioremediation & bioremediation can be defined as any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the natural environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. Essentially it is advanced composting.
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we have then free on the allotment but the old fella opposite pointed out none of the oldies would touch them for anything at all, he said something about wireworm and that doesnt sound good so ive left them be too!! am making paths with thick newspaper weighted down with stones instead, anybody else heard about wireworm??? lou x
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I think they may be confusing wireworms & millipedes, lots of people do.
Millipedes can occasionally cause damage to seedlings or make slug damage to strawberries & cucumbers etc... worse. Generally they prefer to eat the decaying woodchips or any other decaying plant material that is around but because people find them in the holes in their strawberries/cucumbers etc... they assume they are responsible & don't realise the slugs caused the damage the millipedes just found the hole in the fruit & thought it would make a good home.
Wireworms on the other hand are the larvae of the click beetle they don't live in woodchips they live in the soil & feed on the roots of your plants so everything dies off & you don't realise why until you dig the plants up only to find all the roots have been eaten. On the plus side they prefer grassland & tend to disappear from cultivated ground fairly quickly.
Sounds like you may have a good supply of woodchips all to yourself.
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so as the ground im working on was couch grass b4 it could be full of wireworms anyways??? ooer er, am sure ive seen other bugs in there too.... :'(
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We have only used the chippings in the kids play area. I wouldn't use it on the plot cos I prefer my straw paths .
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[Wireworms] prefer grassland & tend to disappear from cultivated ground fairly quickly.
Wireworms definitely like grassland. When one then removes their natural food supply, they eat anything that replaces it, ie. spuds. They either die or move on the greener pastures !
Use mine for mulching the garden in the spring and mulching the plot over winter - just dig 'em in in the spring for water retention as i'm on sandy soil.
( There's nothing like the echo of your own voice !)
I've been using wood chip for mulch for years, I don't suffer from wireworm. :)