No fires
After our telling off yesterday for dumping stuff around the skip ‘cos it was full, and the suggestion that we burn the waste vegetable matter and wood, I spent about 40 minutes digging a sizable bed and lined it with broken bricks and stones to create a safe area for a small bonfire. Today we planned to finally clear the plot and burn what we could. Unfortunately, as soon as I lit the fire I got a complaint from the old fella over the back who said burning wasn’t allowed as the neighbouring community complained of the smoke - fair enough I thought. But I was confused. First of all on the one hand I have a veteran resident actually suggesting that I burn our wast vegetation and on the other I am told that burning is against the rules. Ah well. My plan then is to build a large compost bin as soon as possible to put all the vegetable material into and we will just have to wait until the skip is emptied before we can get rid of all the wood.
In the meantime today I made use of the three pallets we got our hands on a couple of weeks ago.
I have heard and listened to the advise of many who all agree that rotorvating before clearing the weeds by hand is a very bad idea. So we did start doing this - Junko did a great job yesterday and clear about 3m2 . However, we have 300m2 of land to clear and much of it is very thickly vegetated. So today I followed the advice on this site and covered the lot with weedkiller. I now look forward to rotorvating in a few weeks!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
One spraying with weed killer will not kill off the perennial weed roots, it is also getting late in the year to spray. There is only one way to clear the polt of these weeds and that is digging!! Composting perenial weeds is also a no no, they only rot down in a very hot compost heap - not many of us can make one of those. I used to burn a lot of rubbish on that site, you just have to be careful.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
So, you know the Levenshulme site? How did you find my blog?
So what is the deal with burning at Levenshulme? Can I? Can’t I? I know people DO, but I like to play by the rules and as a newcomer, I don’t want to get on the wrong side of anybody - except for that person that stole my incinerator!
September 18th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Your blog has a link to the amas website (blog). I write on there most days - so I saw the link. Burning on any site is a mattter of being careful with the wind and who is arround. I think you may have upset Ken. He has the plot with the polytunnel at the back of yours. If you have a fire when he is not around it will probably be ok.
My plots were at the far end of Barlow Rd by the corner.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hi,
I have an alotment on the Levenshulme site, and yes your not supposed to have fires but if you do it during the week there’s no one to complain.
When I took mine over there was no way I could take all the rubbish I had cleared to the skip which is always full!!!
I burnt all my waste in an old bath, and used the ash to fertilize the ground.
Good luck this coming year!