🎶finally it has happened to me 🎶

I’ve been on chip drop & Arbtalk for soooo long and finally got the call today. 2nd drop incoming later too

#gardening #compost #woodchip

I’ve heard good things about

chipdrop.org

A website that connects arborist wanting to get rid of #woodchip (and sometimes logs or topsoil) with gardeners fir whom free woodchip is a great resource.

Sounds like a great idea.

I probably don’t have cause to sign up myself because our #allotment association has so far kept the woodchip coming.

But I do like chipdrop.org ‘s anti-marketing!

https://youtu.be/ilAv8SzB_Aw

Look closely. Despite the lack of "greens" (aka, a nitrogen source), my #woodchip pile is starting to generate some heat. #Compost happens. January 19, air temperature is 32°.

“Concern that some power plant owners had plans to start using native forest timber as a supplement to coal-fired generation.”
Seriously?
#NativeForests #Woodchip #Electricity #RenewableEnergy #Burning #auspol #LaborGovt

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/16/electricity-generated-by-burning-native-australian-timber-no-longer-classified-as-renewable-energy

The “service” area of our #Allotment with a (part-finished) storage box for tools, and two “dalek” #Composters (probably the vanguard of the dalek invasion). Just covered the ground in that part with #woodchip because it was already looking like a 1970s rugby pitch.
And then we’ve got the compost to start 2 raised beds.
It’s beginning to come together. And since it’s been ours since only 1 November, im pleased with that much done.

Next year at our #Allotment we plan to grow #Potatoes in #Woodchip this way (as explained by @MFG ) Someone dumps trailer loads of woodchip on our allotment site so it’s free for the hauling. I’m thinking that, quite aside from the spuds, the potato plants will be lots of green stuff for composting.

That could be a real secondary benefit as new #NoDig plots need a huge lot of #compost, before eventually becoming self-sustaining.

https://youtu.be/WqJI3yGGSH8

Next year at our #Allotment we plan to grow #Potatoes in #Woodchip this way (as explained by @m FG@mastodon.sdf.org ) Someone dumps trailer loads of woodchip on our allotment site so it’s free for the hauling. I’m thinking that, quite aside from the spuds, the potato plants will be lots of green stuff for composting.

That could be a real secondary benefit as new #NoDig plots need a huge lot of #compost, before eventually becoming self-sustaining.

https://youtu.be/WqJI3yGGSH8

@wormerama so I’m thinking: level the ground. Cardboard “groundsheet” & wood frame a la #CharlesDowding. Mouldy grass, some scraps, worms to fill. Water. Maybe cardboard or mulch on top to keep warm?
Our excellent #allotment committee has secured a big supply of #woodchip. So could mulch with that or with more cardboard
Would that work do you think?

The Seagull review – woodchip-walled Chekhov is hypnotic | Theatre | The Guardian #seagull #review #woodchip-walled #chekhov #hypnotic #theatre #guardian #8luglio https://parliamodi.news/article/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZ3VhcmRpYW4uY29tL3N0YWdlLzIwMjIvanVsLzA3L3RoZS1zZWFndWxsLXJldmlldy13b29kY2hpcC13YWxsZWQtY2hla2hvdi1pcy1oeXBub3RpYw==