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[sarren]

So, I knew, vaguely, that you weren’t supposed to put green waste in your wheelie bin. I also knew that methane is 20 times worse than CO2. I ALSO knew, in a ‘pushing it to the back of my mind and ignoring it sort of way’, that putting green waste into landfill creates methane.

End of last week I got the flyer in the mail announcing a green waste pick up starting Monday, and my brain suddenly went AARRGGHH.

I have been weeding like a MAD WOMAN, I tell you! This morning they did the pick up, which was disappointing, as I was on a MISSION.


However, the front yard is done at last – bloody google, they should give people notice before they photograph them – and my resolution is to continue going out the back every day for at least half an hour when I get home from work - before I sit down and turn on the shiny internets.

By the time I get through that it’ll be time to do the front again. On the plus side, I won’t have to pay the big bucks for them fancy yoga classes – my muscles are getting stretched quite enough.

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[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

May I once again sing the praises of my Tumbleweed mulcher? It is amazing. You can fill it to the brim with lawn clippings, weeds, vegie scraps etc today, and tomorrow it will have nommed its way through 2/3 of them! I've never had to empty it yet! :-D

Plus it is fun to spin around. I can pretend I'm a Barrel Girl.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Could you please link me to one so I know what to get?

Also, what was the website where you could get that stuff that breaks down the dog poo?

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

Here is the tumbleweed link:

http://www.tumbleweed.com.au/pages/default.cfm?page_id=19969

I got mine at Bunnings.

The dog poo stuff is:

http://www.neco.com.au/product.asp?pID=640&cID=93

But I also see that Tumbleweed make a dog poo converter too!

http://www.tumbleweed.com.au/pages/default.cfm?page_id=19692

[sarren.livejournal.com]

When I googled to check Bunnings Sustainability statement it really wanted to take me to their Property Trust site, which was scary and had NO mention of sustainability at all and I was worried, but on their contact page I found the link to the stores and found this (http://www.bunnings.com.au/contact-us_bunnings-sustainability.aspx).

(I'm just showing off now)

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

Ooh, consider me edumacated! I was pretty much ignorant about Sustainability statements. Jolly good!

On a non-PC note, Coles does still sell condensed coffee and milk. I checked today. It is in the coffee section, and comes in the same sort of can as plain condensed milk.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

*la la la* Not listening...even though I keep having thoughts about it in a tube - was it available in a tube at some point?

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, it most certainly was once available in a tube!

*drools a bit*

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Am off to Bunnings tomorrow. I hope they have the poo converter too!

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

Ooh let me know if they do! I think a dog poo converter will be the next thing on my garden-related wishlist.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's just a worm farm, except you feed the worms exclusively on (old, not fresh) dog poo - you can't mix their diet apparently.

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

Oh bother! I want one you can put fresh (ie smelly) dog poo in. I might have to look up info on those doggy latrine things. I saw one in a pet shop once.

Someone should make a dung beetle farm or something.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

It's because the vermicide used to worm dogs lives in the poo for a while.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I think maybe I didn't get the same thing - I bought the Tumbleweed compost maker cos that's what was there and it says you fill it up and turn it for a month before you get compost.

*cries* I was confused by the spinning around part.

I need to go back and buy an actual mulcher as well, don't I?

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

Oops sorry, no you are right. I interchange mulcher for composter when they are different things. I have both. The composter is the spinny thing, and my mulcher is like a wee electric woodchipper. I put my prunings and assorted sticks through it.

I heart them both.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

*sighs in put upon way*

What 'wee electric woodchipper' would I need to buy and is there any chance Bunny could lose a limb?

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I wouldn't bother with a little woodchipper unless you are like me and approach the pruning season with a mad gleam in your eye. You have a green waste pick up system, so that would do for picking up the non-compostable stuff, I would think?

Unless you really do want to make your own woodchips.

(I'll try to get around to take some photos of what I've got.)

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I would prefer not to have things with blades around *g*

I will put all the sticks and vicious dead branches from the cotton palm aside for the next green waste pick up - they're only every six months though.

Also Dragonfly has just informed my that the prickly weeds can't go into compost, so the dozen or so piles of weeding I've done this week will all have to be put aside for the next waste pick up too, cos I'm not going through and separating them *g*

[special-trille.livejournal.com]

But the internets are so VERY shiny!

[sarren.livejournal.com]

NOT HELPING.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of reeling from a gardening post from you.

What about sticks? Are they OK to put in the bin? I do that all the time, thinking that it's better than piling them up and periodically burning them.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I would have thought letting them decompose naturally would be the best. Have a lot of sticks, do you?

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Huge amounts. They'd form an enormous pile - I don't know where I'd put them that wouldn't be a fire risk.

It's a dilemma.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Hmm...my first thought would be one of those wood chipper thingies, except then I have visions of you getting your arm trapped in it and bleeding to death (I'm still not sanguine about your electric saw), so that leaves burning them (and setting fire to your property).

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure complaining about weeding qualifies as a gardening post.