Garden waste - small urban garden

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What ideas do you use for dealing with Garden waste? My garden has no back lane - everything has to go through the house. The council plan for uplift of garden waste doesn’t really work for me, it involves moving a huge wheelie bin up a staircase, which I can’t personally do. I take a lot of waste to the tip in the car in Blue Ikea bags, which I can manage. Is it worth composting? Is it ok to compost near the house? Presumably bonfires are out? The whole thing puts me off doing any gardening.

Can the wheelie bin be kept at the front of the house (or wherever it's picked up from) and you just carry the garden waste through the house to the bin in the Ikea bags?

(I'm confused by the staircase bit - do you mean in the house??)

Sorry, Poorly explained - the house is on the street, no garden, but there is a basement area where you can store a bin. It wouldn’t be ok to store it at ground level at the front.

I suppose if I had a slightly more ‘can do’ attitude I could negotiate using a smaller bin of my own choosing, not sure what their attitude to that would be.

Come to think of it, their attitude to my own bin would probably be ‘no’ since they use those lorries that lift the bins made to fit on them.

You can have bonfires and you can compost too. I would do both

Yes get a compost bin! Bonfires are a bit antisocial if there are lots of other houses nearby.

Find a corner in the garden. Leave it there to dry. Drag it out and get rid of it in a burner.

Do they provide a smaller green waste bin for smaller households?

Our council provides a normal size one and a small one - both the same design so both fit on the lorry.

Or do you have a car? Could you collect it in ikea bags and take it to the tip for recycling?

"You can have bonfires and you can compost too. I would do both"

No to bonfires unless you want to massively piss off your neighbours.

What solution do your neighbours have for garden waste (and for normal household waste)?
Where my sister lives the binmen/women use their “own” set of bins; as the lorry moves down the street the team put the bagged waste into their own bins which the bin lorry can then empty. Weird but true.

No reason not to compost with occasional trips to tip. I agree to snooping on neighbours to find out their solutions.

My childhood home had a truly massive garden with a three bin compost system right down the far end - a trip to the compost was a special walk on a still evening. But you can get going with just a little garden and some kitchen trimmings?

Household bins are dealt with differently, we don’t use wheelies for that. I don’t think anyone in the street puts out a garden bin, so they must be composting/going to the tip.

Another vote for a compost bin... or a wormery.
www.gardenersworld.com/plants/which-type-of-compost-bin-is-best/

My council does 2 sizes of wheelie bins for garden waste - semis (eg) get a big one & terraces get a little one. The little ones often don’t go out but they’re there when we do need them.

I think the sizes are 140L & 240L?

But you can get various sizes of compost bin to keep at the back of your house. They work better on earth but can be sited on concrete.