Greenwaste bin

 A brief history of greenwaste at the garden. For many years the area to the east of the driveway into CCBER was the UCSB dump (there a sign there now called Cook's Nook, named after retired UCSB FM head Jon Cook). We took all of our greenwaste there (as did CCBER and UCSB groundskeepers, etc) and UCSB packed it into big haul off dumpsters periodically. It worked great. Apparently this was unpermitted and the California Coastal Commission shut it down. Move forward to now and we have a greenwaste dumpster from Marborg that we pay 26$ each time it is emptied. For that reason we want to fill it as efficiently as possible, only filling it with weeds with flowers and/or seed heads, invasive plants such as bermuda grass, and diseased plants (squash plants with powdery mildew, tomato plants with wilt, etc.). When you pull plants knock the soil out of the roots, no need to remove fertile soil from the garden! Additionally pack things down when you put them into the dumpster, weeds are often quite bulky and a lot more can fit in the dumpster if you compress the pile and fill in the deadspace down the sides of the bin. All other plant material should go to the piles next to the water cistern. Any questions please ask.

 

Piles of plant material (old veggie growth, young weeds) that will be chipped and made into piles for composting

 Greenwaste bin. Note in picture there is alot of plant material in the bin that would be safe to compost: prunings from lavender and sage plants, old squash vines, etc. The only things that should be in the bin are plants that are difficult to compost: weeds with seeds, Bermuda grass, diseased plants.