Chillicat Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Just had our five ladies with cube delivered today! Simon, from Omlet suggested that I posted the following info on the forum as he thought it was a great ! I got my woodchips FREE from a local tree surgeon. They have to pay to tip the stuff so when I called to ask where I could get it from they were happy to let me have it for nothing. The drawback being that a load was tipped on my drive (a humungus mound of it ) and we had to ferry it to the back of the garden . We also had to take out some holly and small pine branches as none of it was graded. Other than that the stuff smelled just like pine, we didn't pay a penny and I lost 2 1/2 lb at my Rosemary Conley weigh in! Hope this helpful to someone out there! Cathie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I had some woodchip delivered last year. We didn't get round to using it straight away and one night it started to smoulder. We had to get the hose pipe on it pretty smartish as it was next to the shed. Just a word of caution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chillicat Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 Blimey! When it was piled on the drive in a big heap I did notice that it was quite warm in the middle, but it's now spread over a wide area about 3 inches thick on top of soil so we think it will be ok...............won't it? The rest of it has been scattered around the garden. Thanks for the warning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 We did leave it for a couple of weeks....so it was our fault really....but just in case anyone else decided to pile it up......I thought I'd better mention it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 My hubby is a tree surgeon and I have tons of the stuff - it warms up and steams which is what you should do with it - leave it in a heap to start to compost down before you use it - dont use it straight away on your garden at all and it really wont go on fire - just heats up. The blackbirds love it as it composts down and gets full of worms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
