Wood chippings

[bootie]

Last weekend we had tree fellers (only two turned up) and the left me chippings how do you compost them and how long does it take

[lainey lou]

Friends of ours were recently in the same situation and let us have a load which have been used as mulch for the rasberries and the flower boarders.
I think to compost down it would take a while, maybe mix in with some manure and leave till the autumn?

[Flummery]

I use them as pathways on my veg garden. They compost down very slowly and eventually you need to top up - every couple of years now. They take a long time to compost but they do go eventually.

[bluemoon]

We have lorry loads of these delivered to our lotties and most people use them for paths. I don't touch them as I've seen a pile of them produce what looked suspiciously like honey fungus - although I've never been much of a mycologist so it probably wasn't.