On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:14:16 GMT, "Tim W"
wrote:

About five or six years ago I was taken with the idea of spreading bark
chips about the beds as an alternative to actually doing any gardening.
Quickly realising my folly the plastic sacks of bark chips were stacked
against the garage wall and left there.

This year I am resolved to get tidied up and thought that the six year old
bark chips would probably have become something like compost but on opening
the top sack I find only old damp bark chips. Are they totally
indestructible? Could I put them on the compost heap? Would they burn? How
am I to dispose of them? Do they have any useful purpose?

Tim w

Yes I would empty them onto the compost heap, or better still pile
them up somewhere else, let the weather get to them and pee on them
when you can. With patience you'll have some good stuff to spread
around. It makes good paths for veg gardens etc, and will gradually
decompose there too.


Pam in Bristol