"martin" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:14:21 +0000 (UTC), "bnd777"
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"Victoria Clare" wrote in message
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Rusty Hinge wrote in
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Mixing it sounds a great idea plus add in all the manure and compost
you can gather

A good source of composting material is from your local greengrocer,
who will probably let you have loads of sad, off or waste stuff.


Lawn mowings and hedge shreddings are good too. Pile 'em on in layers.

Victoria

Some breweries will be happy to deliver lorry loads of spent hops for
free
Some Sewerage Authorities will deliver lorry loads of treated sewage for
free
I bet normally they have to pay to get rid of the stuff. :-)
I thought that treated sewage is not suitable, because of the high
concentration of heavy metals in it.

Some decades ago I lived in Woking, where the garden was in the Bagshot Sand
area. Leatherhead council, a mere ten miles or so away, marketed an
excellent compost which they produced from household waste. They charged,
if I remember correctly, 2/- per bag. I used tons of the stuff, until the
blighters ceased production. I never found out why they stopped the
project. I would willingly have paid five times as much for the stuff.

Franz