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Please wedge open your council garden waste bin

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  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Mine sits in the shed in a lidless garden collector thing to dry out and the beasties can escape from there. They are collecting it every 2 weeks here still luckily
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited April 2020
    I leave mine open while I'm gardening so I can chuck stuff in easily, then shut it when I'm done for the day (although trying to minimise what's going in there at the moment and compost/shred more because we have no collections).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    Nothing has made it into my green waste bin in 2 years, everything goes directly to the compost bins 😀
  • granmagranma Posts: 1,933
    Just had the usual snails   and  critters in green bin but in compost bin last year  had a lovely grass snake  basking on top of the grass cuttings. It had gone though before I could get my camera!
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    @Wilderbeast everything,  including perennial weeds?  
  • granmagranma Posts: 1,933
    It's a common sight in summer when you live  out in the sticks.
  • granmagranma Posts: 1,933
    Grass snakes, I meant😊
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @Mary370 perennial weeds go in a couple of bins full of water to rot to mush, then they go in.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    granma said:
    Grass snakes, I meant😊
    Certainly is around here :)

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    We grow grass snakes in our compost heap  :) Each year we get the tiny bootlace sized young all over the garden.
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