Disposing of spent Agave

[Mike P]

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Ok so how do you dispose of a spent Agave........in an urban environment....without a brown bin.....

[FredG]

You can chop it up into small pieces and keep dropping a bit or two into litter bins.

Or

Take it to the local recycle centre

Or

Dry it off, season it, then make a walking stick

[Mike P]

I have sharpened a hook and was going to attack it later but am worried about mis hitting it and finding a terminal spine through the hand

[juster]

Goodness Mike, sounds a bit hazardous. Could you just leave it for a while until it starts to die back and collapse, assuming something like that will happen. Perhaps not very tidy, but might be easier.

[Tina]

Looks too nice to chop it up, I'd leave it until next year & see what happens to it.

[ralphrmartin]

Advertise it on eBay as an ex-MoD surplus what-have-you, collection in person only. Doubtless someone will take it off your hands...

[Russell99]

Is it possible to burry it????

[Cidermanrolls]

How do you dispose of any other garden waste?

[Mike P]

I compost just about everything including dead cacti but the scale of this was slightly daunting. In the end I sawed it off at soil level and used a an axe to hack it into small pieces....Mrs P videoed it.....
I like Fred’s idea of a kind of great escape type method of disposing of the pieces.....late evening exercise walks with pieces of agave in the pockets...

[el48tel]

I compost just about everything including dead cacti but the scale of this was slightly daunting. In the end I sawed it off at soil level and used a an axe to hack it into small pieces....Mrs P videoed it.....
I like Fred’s idea of a kind of great escape type method of disposing of the pieces.....late evening exercise walks with pieces of agave in the pockets...

I see the headline on next week's Bromley Times ..... Plant Stalks Walkers in Wood. Police suspect Central American links.