Property News · November 5, 2016

How to turn wood chips into a great compost heap | Alys Fowler


Take a leaf out of a French inventor’s book for a compost heap that’s cheap as chipsMy allotment site made a deal with our local tree surgeon to take his brush and wood chippings. Very soon we were swimming in them – so many unloved leylandii and cherry laurels now steaming in our dropoff area. It turns out there are only so many wood chipping paths you can make. We needed a solution.Jean Pain was an inventor, gardener and forester who lived in the south of France in the 70s. He, too, had a lot of brush and wood in his life. Pain’s solution was to heat his house, not by burning the wood, but by composting it. As well as fertiliser, his simple and effective use of bio-energy provided both hot water and methane gas to cook with and fuel a generator. He even ran his truck on the gas. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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