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I have no soil. I just paid some $100 to bring me mulch. I dont not dispose of my green waste any other place than at the back of my yard in a low spot. Some of it has been there a year now, and it is all breaking down slowly.
When we have been lucky enough to have the chipper in the neighborhood, we chipped a limbs and palm fronds to use in planter beds.
Disposing of green waste? hrmmmpph!
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If lumber is left out in the yard and gets covered with weeds it can decompose within a year. We pile most of our green waste in a big pile and it just melts. I haven't a clue why it seems to go so quickly, maybe we get more rain or something? It might be that we start out with dirt underneath the pile so it stays moist to begin with. Perhaps if the compost piles had a thick layer of grasses or even of newspapers to hold the moisture it would decompose faster?
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Our currently thriving banana patch started out as a barren puka that we began throwing weeds into about four years ago. There was some soil in there after a year, but we kept piling it on for another year and then planted bananas. Now we share bananas with the neighbors. We occasionally still put some greenwaste in there to make it even deeper, but we have shifted most of it to another puka where I want to plant a couple more fruit trees. I also made my own soil for a 10 X 10 raised bed in about a year. If I could just figure out how to get rid of the damn coleus cuttings.
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Well the group that owns the lot next door has albezias and sugar cane growing on the very edge of our property, one tree which I girdled and the other which is was girdled poorly (still growing) prior to our buying this property. These trees are leaning over our property line. The green waste that we have thrown on that lot has only been stuff from their property creeping onto mine. So, if that is wrong sobeit.
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Please do not dump your green waste on your neighbors yard unless you get permission. Tree logs, branches, plam frawns, pineapple tops, fruit etc will eventually decompose but it is a slow process if not composted correctly, which toss over the fence is not.
Our neighbor was dumping for years on our lot unknown to us. We just had to pay to get it thier green waste removed!!! Be considerate of others property.
I would never hire a landscaper who did not remove the green waste or add it to the site compose pile. That is part of their business no matter where you live!
PS Carolann R I agree with your position on creeping green stuff.
Susan
Edited by - Tolleys on 10/13/2007 05:30:10
Susan
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Thanks for your post Susan. I DO agree that to just haphazardly dump on another's property is not ethical. However, we have a yard that is black lava cinder...the adjacent lot is wildly growing cane and albezia popping up all the time near or on the property edge...the cane is a real booger to keep off our lot. We have a "gully" at the rear of our property which is where we throw our own green waste. But this cane, etc. I'm cutting back and throwing on their lot. This property is owned by an asian investment group and is not cared for, much like many lots in this area.
Carrie
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