mattt44

Hi, I'm not a tree guy, just someone with a tip site. But I do alot of composting. I think holly would be a brown and a green, in fact the perfect compostable material, in that it would perfectly compost by itself, but it will take a long time. I compost bay leaves and I suspect they will be very similar. It will take I suspect at least 2 years, any sort of shredding will help, I put my bay leaves and small branches through a garden shredder, if I had a hedge that big I would definately get some sort of shredder, you will need one with spinning blades and not crushing rollers. On the other hand. shredding that much material is going to take forever in a garden shredder, so the more you spend, the better. The easiest way to compost would be a chicken wire circle and everything just thrown in, one per year, if you fancy, every 6 months or so use a fork and turn it. HTH's

Domestic house with large garden and woodburner. Well set up to process logs and woodchip. Large car sized drive at front to take tippings. Prefer call first to enable tarpaulin to be put down, but logs just leave if no one available on site.