What you do with muck and how much do you pay for disposal?

[Achinghips]

As above really. I'm not interested in a debate about pooh picking, or not for the more helpful among you

Do you hedge it? And if so, why?

Do you advertise it on free cycle?

Do you have a trailer that is owned by a friendly farmer who removes it for a fee?

Do you return it to your land once rotted?

 

[poiuytrewq]

I hedge it sometimes (assuming you only mean field muck here!) when the mud is awful it go's in the hedge or if I've let things get on top of me a bit.
It's off the field so that's good enough. The rest of it I put on my muck heap which gets transferred to land ladies bigger heap and spread over her fields. I'm a bit unenthusiastic about it going on mine- seems a bit pointless having spent hours poo picking to spread it back on. That said I'm told it's perfectly safe to do so.

 

[Spottyappy]

Free cycle,preloved and local allotments.
The gardener supply own bags and man power with which to fill them.
Often get free veg into the bargain too!

 

[pansy]

We bag ours up - leave some to be collected & deliver the rest to local allotments - they cant get enough of it x

 

[Kooklet]

My dad's a farmer and he removes a couple of people's muck heaps for them. He charges them £20 an hour. One has their own tipper trailer which he picks up and empties then takes it back.

 

[Fools Motto]

Harrowed or 'hedged'. Stable muck heaped for a while, then spread onto the fields. On the odd occasion, some people come with a few bags and collect a bit.

 

[Goldenstar]

In the two fields that edge an old quarry we just sling it in there from Fatties strip we put it on the muckheap.
I don't poo pick the winter fields .
The muckheap gets shifted up to the top of the land and left and every two years it gets spread on the largest field.

 

[kat2290]

I've started putting mine in to bags everyday as I collect it and leaving it at the bottom of the drive. Gets taken away very quickly so I don't have to worry anymore about my ever expanding poo pile, winner! I thought being fresh rather than rotted might put people off but it doesn't seem to make any difference. I have a little sign on the driveway advertising it and saying please help yourself

 

[cobgoblin]

We let rot down, then put it into saved small haylage bags and sell it outside the gate. We sold literally tons of the stuff last spring, couldn't keep up with demand!

 

[L&M]

We have a large trailer we put the muck in and our neighbouring farmer collects it for free as put's it on his fields.

We also put out an email on the village round robin email come spring in case anyone wants some for their gardens, and usually shift some this way too.

 

[pennyturner]

I spent most of today moving material from my old muck heap over to my new veggie patch

 

[p87]

Where I am a local farmer brings sheep for a holiday over spring/summer and he takes the muck heap away as a thank you for having his sheep

 

[_HP_]

Local farmer removes it and takes it up the road for Damien Hurst's flowerbeds.

 

[Achinghips]

Just to add my experience ... Locat farmer is leaving me a trailer and coming to take it away when full or when I ring him for £15 each time.

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Local farmer takes muck heap twice a year - in spring & late autumn.

If a horrid day & am struggling with barrow, I might hedge it if using the paddocks with the hedge boundaries