Kitchen Garden Forum

Turning over dung-heap. found copious amounts of nylon string. Must remember not to use this in future, it doesn't rot.

When I get given manure it often has binder twine in it, I wonder what it does to muck spreaders.

It a annual event cutting it off all the moving parts, and it gets unbelievably tight.

Last year I tipped a large amount of shredded 'paper' (used to buffer a small purchase in a large box) into the compost and realised when spreading it eventually that some must have been thin plastic and then had to extract these thin plastic 'strings' from the compost. Won't do that again.

My garden is full of twinkly bits from shredding window envelopes that are plastic rather than cellophane.

Our plot is full of little plastic flowers the type used in memorial bouquets that's the problem with using soil
that was dumped on the waste land at the side of the allotment by the council , it seems to have come from the cemetery ,at least it's not short of bone meal

Deviating the subject somewhat, but expressing a personal view...

I find the use of plastic flowers in cemeteries or other places really tacky. They fade, get filthy and generally eventually look a poor method of remembrance.

Back nearer to subject, I made a memo to myself not to buy horse manure from stables when the last load I had contained lumps of concrete, worn out grooming brushes, broken flip flops and baling twine , all within the one load.
That was when I decided it was worth paying for the composted manure I now use.