Compost give-away
Now is a great time to improve your garden soil - one of the very best ways is to add compost to the soil. Compost is great for ensuring your plants have plenty of food to keep them growing well, but also helps to improve the structure of the soil - ensuring that sandy soil retains more moisture and nutrients required by plants, and also breaking up heavy clay soil to improve drainage and texture. As autumn and winter approaches it's coming up to tree and shrub planting time - a mix of compost and soil will give those trees and shrubs a great start.
Liverpool City Council is part of a composting scheme which is made up of the five Merseyside councils and MWDA (Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority). We have teamed up with National recycling body WRAP (Waste and resources action programme) to offer cut price compost bins to residents. Residents who use the green waste collection service or home compost are playing a vital role in diverting compostible waste from landfill.
On Saturday 13 September between 10.00am and 2.00pm, Liverpool City Council are giving away the compost made from the green waste collected from the green waste collection services across Merseyside to local residents - as a 'thankyou' for recycling their garden waste using the collection service, or home composting their waste. Bring your own shovel and bags to transport the compost in - there will be someone in our main car park off Muirhead Avenue to help.
This compost giveaway will be repeated in other parks throughout the city as follows:
Sat 19 Sept 2008, 10am-2pm - Clarke Gardens, Car park on left
Sat 11 Oct 2008 10am-2pm - Sefton Park, Croxteth Drive car park
Sat 18 Oct 2008 10am-2pm - Croxteth Park, car park entrance off Oak Lane/Muirhead Ave
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