A super-green Yorkshire compost is helping Lancashire gardeners win their wars with their roses – not to mention their hanging baskets, lawns, veg patch and trees and shrubs – since being taken across the Pennines by Lancaster-based wood fuel specialist, Logs Direct.
Logs Direct is now finding homes in Lancashire and other parts of the country, for an eco-friendly, top quality compost created from the household waste of Leeds and York homeowners and called ‘Yorganics’, to reference its Yorkshire roots.
Yorganics is the latest environmentally friendly product to enter the Logs Direct portfolio, following the business’s adoption of Brackenburn Brackettes and Coffee Logs. It offers a greener alternative to peat, reserves of which are diminishing fast, has full traceability and boasts a much lower carbon footprint than most other composts.
It gives green-principled gardeners complete peace of mind, as it is a 100% recycled product that has been through an eco-friendly process, taking it from household green waste bin to bagged 0-10mm quality compost.
This garden star was created by a partnership between York and Leeds’ City Councils and Yorkshire Water. Householders’ green waste is taken to 13 Yorkshire Water sites and meticulously shredded, to break it down into small particles. It is then piled up into 8-metre tall mounds, stretching 100 metres or more, and rolled several times.
The temperature of the waste rises to around 85˚C in parts of the mound, well exceeding the 65˚C required for sterilisation. As the heat rises, the matter breaks down and turns black.
The compost is then taken to a processing plant and passed through a magnetic belt, to remove all metal traces. An oversized drum removes larger pieces, to create a BSI PAS100-standard compost.
Use of Yorganics compost makes for better blooms, a higher yield of fruit and vegetables, gorgeous hanging baskets and thriving trees and shrubs. The compost is also a perfect lawn feed and dressing, great for improving turf and repairing divots, and handy for mulching, leaving Logs Direct with many potential customers.
“It would be churlish for Lancashire’s gardeners to shun this great compost,” says Logs Direct director, Stephen Talbot. “Using it is an easy way to create a blooming lovely garden, as it’s very effective in holding nutrients and water in the soil, releasing them when required. It helps heavy soil recover and become more workable and also improves drainage. It’s super-green and eco-friendly and should have a home in many Lancashire gardens, even if it has crossed the Pennines from Yorkshire.”
Yorganics comes in handy 40-litre carry bags, or can be delivered in bulk by Logs Direct in 800kg dumpy bags. More details about the homegrown Yorkshire product that can help you win your wars with the roses is at www.logsdirect.co.uk
