Compost

The allotment holders of Stamford Green do not seem to share Mr. Buczacki's enthusiasm for compost, noticed at reference 1, with ten brown bins full of garden waste being put outside the allotment gates for collection by the council.

Given the generous size of allotments and the poor quality of much of the soil, one might have thought that making compost out of one's green waste was the way forward, much easier than packing the stuff up and wheeling it out to the road, but the allotment keepers of today seem to be off-message.

In my time as an allotment holder on this very site, I always had a compost heap on the go, fenced in with pallets gathered up from somewhere or other. With the added bonus of the occasional rat taking up residence.

Perhaps the eco's argue that the carbon cost of collecting the stuff up is more than offset by the carbon bonus of the council's very efficient digesters. Or perhaps fermenters. But I don't see it myself.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/09/kippers.html.