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Digestate on hedges

Sam76Sam76 Posts: 151
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A friend has some spare digestate from an anerobic digester on his farm. He uses it as a mulch on his hedges & suggested i do the same. Has anyone tried this & is it a good idea?
Thanks

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    forgive my ignorance, but what's digestate?
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hostafan1 said:
    forgive my ignorance, but what's digestate?
    Edited to say, wikepedia seems to say it's good. 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Bro uses digestate from anerobic digesters on the farm. Says it’s great stuff. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Sam76Sam76 Posts: 151
    It wouldnt burn the hedge plants?
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Is that like leacheate? Do you dillute it?
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    So anaerobic digesters take a whole load of organic matter, say wheat, grass, maize the list is endless, this is placed in a sealed chamber as the microbiology gets working it rapidly uses all the oxygen and then breaks down in a anaerobic atmosphere. The methane produced is tapped off and when the process is finished all that is left is a slurry like material. They separate the liquid from solids, this is the digestate.

    I've been following a few people on YouTube who are trialing it as compost and found that it really needs to mature for at least 3 months for that but as a mulch the feedback was that it was good
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Wilderbeast said:
    So anaerobic digesters take a whole load of organic matter, say wheat, grass, maize the list is endless, this is placed in a sealed chamber as the microbiology gets working it rapidly uses all the oxygen and then breaks down in a anaerobic atmosphere. The methane produced is tapped off and when the process is finished all that is left is a slurry like material. They separate the liquid from solids, this is the digestate.

    I've been following a few people on YouTube who are trialing it as compost and found that it really needs to mature for at least 3 months for that but as a mulch the feedback was that it was good
    how do we get hold of this wonder stuff?
    Devon.
  • Sam76Sam76 Posts: 151
    Thanks all
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