Thursday 22 April 2021

Filling the Skip

 Some time ago, we removed the bulk of a Hawthorn tree to incorporate it into a hedge and trimmed the residue of our neighbours Leylandii hedge which had been deliberately left overhanging our garden to avoid killing the trees with too heavy a cut.  That, along with a range of unwanted stuff was cleared into a skip for disposal.

Foliage and small branches has previously been cut chopped and bagged before the skip arrived.  That was done over a few weeks and has more than halved the bulk of thre cuttings to enable more to go into the skip.
The larger branches had been trimmed and stacked ready for dropping into the skip, along with old water butts filled with leaf and small foliage trimmings.
Much of the Hawthorn was used to create a log pile for wildlife shelter as the old stack had rotted down over the years.  That should ensure winter comfort for a few species.
Filling the skip was a quick and easy operation.  It arrived just before 10am and was filled by 2:30pm by efficiently stacking the material to leave little space.  A six ton skip seems quite small, but with considered filling it can hold a lot of stuff.
Rosie collected up all of the non-plant material for disposal and cleaned out the bins whilst I finished packing the skip.
The area behind the shed was an impenetrable space, but the work we have done over the past couple of years has given us more usable garden.  Our intention is to build another shed elsewhere in the garden and remove this one.  We have a Birch tree to plant and some Yellow Rattle grown from seed in the greenhouse - That will form the basis for converting this garden area into a wildlife patch of dappled shade and wild flowers.

The broken green plastic pond and the decaying grey tub from our neighbours garden have also been consigned to the rubbish bin.


 

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