Wanted Please - Harrogate / York / Leeds area

[Mercedes55]

We've had our WIR for nearly a year and we've gone through about 6 bales of Rapport for the floor and inside the Eglu and Cube. I think it's about time we did a proper clean out instead of just picking out the poo and put some Stalosan F down and some fresh Rapport, but have no idea how to get rid of what is going to be a really huge amount of floor covering. Our WIR is 24ft by 7ft and must have a good few inches of Rapport on it, some of which is obviously hard lumps of poo that have been missed on the daily poo pick up. I did tell OH not to put so much Rapport down as it would make it hard to get rid of it all, but like a lot of men he didn't take any notice and he just keeps topping it up rather than raking it out and replacing it. I was thinking about buying some rubble sacks and filling those but not sure where to take them once they are full

[Egluntyne]

You could advertise it on Freegle. I have a couple of 'customers' who take mine away.

 

You could also offer it to your local Allotment Assoc.

[Mercedes55]

You could advertise it on Freegle. I have a couple of 'customers' who take mine away.

 

You could also offer it to your local Allotment Assoc.

 

So they would want it even though a lot of it is just Rapport? I keep thinking they would only want pure chicken poo

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I bagged up loads and loads of "used" Easibed and took it down to the council dump.

 

Afterwards, I realised I could have used it as mulch for my veg beds or for frost protection for vulnerable plants. I wish I'd kept it .

[Mercedes55]

I bagged up loads and loads of "used" Easibed and took it down to the council dump.

 

Afterwards, I realised I could have used it as mulch for my veg beds or for frost protection for vulnerable plants. I wish I'd kept it .

 

We don't have any veg beds or we would use it for that. Now I recall reading somewhere that chicken poo is fine for veg beds but not flower beds as it's too strong. We do know someone with an allotment, so might see if he wants it

[sage]

I put an advert on the local rags webs site.

Free 10 bags chicken poo/woodchip within 12 hours I had several calls.

 

Sage

[Mercedes55]

I put an advert on the local rags webs site.

Free 10 bags chicken poo/woodchip within 12 hours I had several calls.

 

Sage

 

All I need to do now is get OH to bag it all up

[Ain't Nobody Here]

That's why I keep old bedding and compost bags .

[Mercedes55]

That's why I keep old bedding and compost bags .

 

Now why didn't I think of that

 

I do keep the old bags from my dog's food as they are very thick plastic and they come in useful for taking the poo out of the run, but we don't really go through enough of them to get all that Rapport into them. Amazing how much Rapport comes out of one bale. Just wish you could get as much back in again

[Olly]

If you can, I'd use it in your own garden - it will be too hot for seedlings, but should be ok as mulch round established plants, or you could put it in your composter, or just keep it in bags to rot down. I have a spare plastic dustbin which I just fill up with 'run floor' and leave for 6-12 months. If you have room, you could just pile it in a raised bed or similar, leave it for a few months and it'll be ok to plant on. Or bag it up, and put it on Freecycle/advertise it at your local allotment site/take it to the 'green waste' section of the council tip?

 

I'd hang on to it if you can, my vegetables have never been so good!

[UKMARCH]

I agree I try to use ours in the garden, my OH changes the aubiose every 2 weeks just before green bin day so he fills that up and then we compost the rest mostly the poo and some bedding. If you have a large run you could always have 2 composts and when one is full use the other. We don't have a massive garden so haven't got room to grow as much as I would like but my runner beans are looking good this year my neighbour has passed a compliment perhaps he may like some compost next year for his!

[Mercedes55]

Well our garden is not small but I wouldn't call it large either, I think it's about 60ft by 34ft or something like that. However we have our WIR, the back run, a Summer House, swing, shed and garage in that space and the left is borders and lawn, so don't really have space for a compost heap. We are actually considering looking at other houses locally as some houses round here have 250ft gardens and that would be wonderful

[Olly]

While plastic composters aren't as effective as a good old-fashioned heap in my opinion, they are very compact. I have three in my garden (100' x 30') and it's surprising how easy they are to conceal behind a shrub, you'd never know they are there. I rotate so that I have one being filled, one composting, and one being dug out at any one time -it never works exactly because the top layer isn't as well-composted as the bottom that you're digging out, so that bit usually gets added to the 'filling up' one.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I have a tiny garden and I've got 3 compost bins .