The larger plots around Aughton mean mature hedges and established borders, and by midsummer the growth on both can be considerable. If you are planning a serious tidy-up, the green waste from a heavy hedge cut and a border clearance mounts up faster than a few garden bags can cope with. A skip booked through our Aughton skip hire service takes the whole lot in one go and leaves you free to get on with the satisfying part of the job.
Timing a Hedge Cut Around Nesting Birds
There is an important point that often gets overlooked with summer hedge work in semi-rural spots like Aughton. Nesting birds are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and the main nesting season runs roughly from the start of March to the end of August. It is an offence to cut a hedge while there is an active nest in it, so the sensible approach in high summer is to check carefully before you start and hold off on any major cutting until the season has finished if you find signs of nesting. A light trim is one thing, but a hard reduction of a thick hedge is best timed for late summer onwards once the birds have fledged.
This matters in Aughton because the older field-boundary hedges that survive in many gardens here are exactly the dense, mature growth that birds favour.
How Much Green Waste a Hedge Produces
People consistently underestimate the volume that comes off a hedge. Leylandii and laurel in particular bulk up enormously once cut, because the springy branches refuse to compress. A border clearance adds spent perennials, bramble, turf and root balls on top. For a project of this scale, a 4 tonne midi skip usually has the capacity, and chopping branches down before loading makes a real difference to how much you can fit in.
What Counts as Garden Waste
Pure green waste such as hedge trimmings, grass, leaves and soil-free prunings is the cleanest type of load to deal with, and our dedicated garden waste skip hire service is set up for it. Things get more complicated if you mix in fence offcuts, old pots or rubble, so it helps to know in advance what belongs in a green load. Our guide on whether you can put garden waste in a skip covers the details and explains why keeping green waste separate gives it the best chance of being composted.
Where the Green Waste Goes
Clean garden waste is well suited to recycling, and we process skip loads at our own centre so that as much as possible is turned into compost or mulch rather than sent to landfill. Our environmental and recycling page explains how we handle green material.
Serving Aughton and the Villages Around Ormskirk
Aughton sits in a cluster of villages we know well, and alongside it we are regularly out with garden skips for households served by our Ormskirk skip hire coverage and our Maghull skip hire service just to the south.
If your hedges and borders need taming this summer, call our team on 01704 779345 and we will get a skip to you to suit the job. You can also drop us a line through the contact us page.
