Message Board - Natural Turf: Years of composted grass clippings.
8 Jan 2010 by Chris Thornton Last edited 8 Jan 2010
I often wondered what would happen to grass clipping which had been "composted" for years and years and left untouched. I knew that they got warm, then smelly, then very sloppy and a haven for Brandlings but until this Autumn I had never actually dug into the heap.
Clippings at this club have been dumped in the same place for over 40 years that I know of and as the heap is behind the shed, lots of other detritus has been included and covered with the clippings.
I am trying to create a hedge along the site on a hard core path (65 yds) and am having to dig through the hard core and the membrane, before I can introduce the "bare rooted" shrubs. I also said that I would need several tonnes of topsoil but I didn't think the club would have the funds.
I therefore had a dig into what had become a very fertile heap behind the shed and Lo' it is brilliant soil (apart from litter, old clothing, rocks, large lumps of clay, briars, nettle roots, old batteries and large roots from the adjacent Poplar. Donkey work at times to shift.
Apart from saving the club lots of dosh a flat area it being created for a container the club hope to purchase in a couple of years time.
Last season was my first at the club and I had started to spread the clippings and scrification arisings along the path so hadn't dumped any behind the shed. There is a large amount of soil still to shift but it will come in very handy in the years to come!!
Chris
"He not busy being born is busy dying"
8 Jan 2010 by Chris Thornton
This is the site of the old hardcore path, which given time, will be grass with a mixed hedge in front of the United Utilities fence to keep the wind of the whining spectators who frequent that particular boundary!!
Chris
"He not busy being born is busy dying"
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