Prunings

[Containergardener]

We have quite alot of trees which need major pruning, we have a great shredder which chops it all up, my question is about putting it on the garden. My mum has an empty composter , if i plonk the chippings in there to use some other time be ok ?
I dont make compost.

[bario1]

If you plonk them in the composter, then you will be making compost! They'll soon heat up and start to break down, though they'll take a long time. But the resulting woody compost makes a good mulch.

[nickdub]

We have quite alot of trees which need major pruning, we have a great shredder which chops it all up, my question is about putting it on the garden. My mum has an empty composter , if i plonk the chippings in there to use some other time be ok ?
I dont make compost.

I had a similar thing a little while ago when the electric company pruned some trees back from overhead cables and left me with a pile of wood chips. I filled one of the 1 ton builders' bags with them and dragged it to a shady corner of the garden. It took about 2 years to breakdown to the point where I could use it to mix in with other compost for growing plants in.

[roitelet]

Just had ours done an de got loads of branched as well as larger logs. Large ones are dried out for burning in about 2 years and I an slowly working my way through the smaller branched with the shredder and they go straight on to the flower beds as mulch. Done it before with no ill effects.