"Douglas" wrote in message
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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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In article , Tumbleweed
writes

my council composts garden waste and makes it available for
free at
the
local dump.



Amersham council sell their and not too cheaply wither! Mind
you,
seeing
what people put in the compost I wouldn't want any. I can't
believe
that
ground elder and bindweed will be killed by simple composting
and
what
about the odd chunk of Japanese knotweed that some new gardener
might
not recognise?

Nothing survives an well executed composting process My Council
jollop looks as near to perfectly composted material as I have
ever
seen. Time will tell if it only looks good, or if it actually
benefits the garden.

Franz

******
Jollop?, I had a good smile at that one!. That word was said
occasionally
when I was a child, by my Dad when referring to the diaphorryo the
poor
footsloggers in the WW1 trenches suffered. Actually the word is
jalap; A
purgative drug derived from the tuberous roots of a Mexican
climbing
plant., - ( Spanish, Ipomoea , family Convolvulaceae.); It was the
only
military answer to constipation and it was said it was not usually
required
just before they went over the top..
He was better off in WW2, - he was a Flight Louie in the R.A.F.
Training
Command and the Officers Mess was not short of a loo or three..

My father used to say that he learnt the word when he was a child in a
concentration camp in the anglo-boer war. But he referred to it as
"janlap".

Franz