What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

[gtaus]

I know loads of people who use "humanure" on their veg beds. I'm not at the moment but I've done it myself. It's not hard to get a compost heap up to a decent temperature.

Well, I posted that it's against the law here. So, I have never considered composting humanure. But I get so much chicken run compost, that I don't use it all. From a compost point of view, I have more than I need.

 

[Molpet]

but most of the regulations are a response to someone who did something wrong somewhere

They passed a law here to not blow grass on the rd when people mow. This never used to be a problem. People mowed in the first few passes and then mowed out so it blew over the already mowed.
Bikes and Motorcycle would hit the wet grass and wipe out. Cars crashed because they slid when braking.

 

[gtaus]

They passed a law here to not blow grass on the rd when people mow. This never used to be a problem. People mowed in the first few passes and then mowed out so it blew over the already mowed.
Bikes and Motorcycle would hit the wet grass and wipe out. Cars crashed because they slid when braking.

Perfect example of someone messing up on something simple and then a law has to be written to enforce what many of us would consider common sense. I have always made the first few passes around the edges of the property cutting the grass to the inside. Then after a few passes, reverse the mowing to send the grass clipping away from middle. But the grass would stay on the lawn at that point and not out on the road or sidewalk. I don't know if I was ever taught that, but it's just the way I always did it. Good to know that bad things could happen if you blew all that grass out on to the road.

FWIW, I have a battery operated leaf blower that I use after mowing and edging to blow any debris back on to the lawn. I did it just to make things look better. But I guess there is also a valid safety reason for it that I had never considered. So, thank you for that post.