At the smallholding we never needed to pay for a garden waste bin as we made loads of lovely compost with the chickens and the goats and the garden and had plenty of space too.
With this small garden and the nuisance of rats, I'm having to pay for a garden waste bin collection so when I found the District Council were giving away 2 x 25 litre bags of their compost (made from our garden waste) - to anyone who wanted some - as long as their stock lasted - at 4 places in Mid Suffolk and Babergh areas I thought I'd better get some. The two sites in Mid Suffolk were not far from home.
For the first one I drove up the road to a Community centre car park well before the 8am start, arriving to find a queue of about 20 cars waiting. I didn't realise compost was so popular!
The second giveaway was at the Saturday Car-boot Sale site at Needham Market. So on Sunday I joined a queue of about 30 cars zig zagging the way round the field- very well choreographed to slow everyone down and to avoid causing a traffic jam out on the road - and got my two bags chucked in the boot of the car. By the time I was loaded up and out there were around 50 cars behind!
Compost giveaways have been happening for several years I believe, although it's the first time since I've been back in Mid Suffolk that I've been at home with nothing happening on the right days to be able to fetch some.
4 bags out the front of the bungalow and then thankfully BiL brought my repaired wheelbarrow back to get the bags around to the greenhouse. We opened a bag as both of us were interested to see what it was like and it seems to be quite decent compost, no big lumps.
Later yesterday, after the greenhouse had cooled down I got my pepper plants into their bigger final pots and the two cucumber plants that I had to buy into a grow bag. Just two aubergines left to sort out.
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Sue
