{"id":4763,"date":"2016-09-26T02:04:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T01:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:59:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:59:01","slug":"garden-bonfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/garden-bonfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Bonfires for Gardeners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2546\/3745394267_e8414e3860.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once a regular weekend event, Garden Bonfires are now fewer and further between since recycling, reusing and composting got to the top of the green agenda.<br \/>\nThere are still occasions when a fire is the right way to go and I use one of these dustbin burners. The holes at the bottom provide air flow and the chimney restricts the amount of flying debris.<br \/>\nI collect the none compostable (often diseased) wood and brash in the bin until I have a load then set fire to it. After 4-5 years the bin bottom burns through and I need a new bin.<br \/>\nFor large chunks of wood I used to have a November 5th fire but now with chimineas and Council recycling they have gone the way of Guy Fawkes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Burning Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid excessive smoke by burning dry material not soggy wet compostable stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Do not burn plastic, foam, paint, rubber or household rubbish.<\/li>\n<li>Be safe by not using oil, methylated spirits, or petrol to light or encourage a fire.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid lighting fires in unsuitable weather conditions such as damp, still days or when the wind will blow smoke over roads or into neighbours gardens<\/li>\n<li>Try to avoid bonfires when people want to enjoy their gardens such as weekends or Bank Holidays.<\/li>\n<li>Wood ash contains potassium and is good for root crops bulbs etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a regular weekend event, Garden Bonfires are now fewer and further between since recycling, reusing and composting got to the top of the green agenda. There are still occasions when a fire is the right way to go and I use one of these dustbin burners. The holes at the bottom provide air flow and the chimney restricts the amount of flying debris. I collect the none compostable (often diseased) wood and brash in the bin until I have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/garden-bonfires\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening","category-garden-equipment-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}