Having happily spent several, smokey hours in the rain yesterday, incinerating 6 months-worth of pruning, I am now surfing reviews of shredders and am contemplating spending £180 on a Bosch AXT 2200.
My garden is about 10m x 10m, mostly shrubs around a lawn. Trees lean over from next door. I do a good line in brambles and ivy, too.
I incinerate because I'm not convinced that driving my diesel car to the tip several times a year is necessarily any more eco-friendly than incinerating once or twice a year. But this year my pile somehow got sodden in the middle, and I found myself trying to burn semi-composted stuff. Which obviously was not successful and was particularly smokey.
The council want me to pay £85 per year for them to take my green waste away, and the charge keeps going up every couple of years.
A shredder's beginning to look like a good investment.
Any shredding gardeners around? What do you think?
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Should I buy a shredder?
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GoodyGoodyGumdrops · 31/05/2017 16:38
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