Reply To: Composting Ivy

[macson]

Thanks Charles, I thought that would be the answer.

Hi Wellies, Do you find that the thorns disappear in the compost? My spiky brambles are often dead wild blackberries that I have cut down where they have grown into trees. They are very spiky. Perhaps I’ll start a separate heap with mostly brambles with a good lot of grass and cardboard and see what happens. I hate taking any garden waste to the local dump. Seems such a waste (pun intended). Hawthorn, maybe I will feed into my incinerator. We also have wood ash from our open fire. Still burning pine from trees chopped down 12 years ago. Nowadays, also I shred occasional pine branches (thin ones) and this also goes into the compost.

Another myth for Charles, “You shouldn’t burn pine in an open fire or wood burner”.