As with all gardening activities, please wear gloves and wash hands when finished and before eating or drinking any thing. Transform the look of your garden with our variety of garden pebbles and cobblestones. Adding decorative contrast around your water feature, pond and plants, our pebbles and stones come in a choice of colours to suit your style.

Once the Council receives an application the location will be assessed against the criteria and the enquirer informed. What happens during severe winter weather? The decision on whether to send out the gritters is taken by experienced staff (who are guided by) the most accurate information available on local weather conditions, as well as data from roadside monitoring equipment around the borough. It consists of pharmaceutical grade ingredients, including mineral oil, beeswax and ultra fine grinding powders. These are then carefully blended (without the use of solvents or other strong smelling and potentially harmful chemicals) to produce a creamy abrasive paste.

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Westland Potting Grit provides an ideal base for plants to root into and gives a natural look to ponds and aquariums. During transport, the Potting Grit will have created a small amount of dust, remove this by washing in a clean bowl with several changes of water. Line the base of the pond or aquarium with a layer of grit 2-3cm deep.

When carrying out gritting operations, it is not possible to treat every road in our 1,071km borough; therefore we have to prioritise the strategic road network and the local bus routes and roads which provide access to hospitals, ambulance and fire stations and Industrial estate roads. Are footpaths gritted? The council has also ensured it has adequate stores of salt to deal with the most severe winters. You gritted last night but there didn't appear to be any ice in the morning? Many plants such as alpine and cacti do not like moisture. To aid drainage and to keep the foliage dry remove 1-2cm of compost from the pot and replace with Westland Potting Grit. This provides an attractive finish to the pot and also aids watering. We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item to request a return. No footways receive a precautionary salting, however in extreme weather we do treat footways in town centre areas when snow has fallen. When do you grit?Product can be applied safely in gardens with animals and children. Some animals may be attracted to manures – manure can be dug in to reduce the attraction although it will not be harmful to them. When it is forecast that snow will be above 40mm, or that rain will be followed by ice for more than 24 hours on the Priority One Network Carriageways, the Council’s Severe Weather Deployment Plan will be deployed. Dedicated teams whose services have been temporarily suspended because of the bad weather will be deployed across the ten townships of the borough to clear the snow and ice from prioritised footways, such as outside clinics, doctors and day centres.

Westland Potting Grit can be used to provide extra drainage in compost for plants such as cacti and other plants that require well drained roots. Add approximately one handful of grit (40-50g) to each litre of compost and mix well. Product is sold as one Bulk Bag which is approximately 900L when filled. Product may settle or compress during filling and transport.During storage, organic materials may develop a white mould, this is completely natural and harmless and will soon disappear when agitated. We grit all the main roads, including principal bus routes and routes for the emergency services. Priority is given to maintaining safe driving conditions on those most frequently used routes. It would be prohibitively expensive to treat every side street and minor road. The decision to grit is made based on the weather forecast data received from the National Weather Centre and the road surface temperature as measured at several local weather stations. Who grits the M6, M61? The grinding powders used are designed to break down to a finer mesh as they are used, while still maintaining a cutting edge, so as the friction reduces the mesh size of the grit it is effectively forming a finer abrasive. In comparison tests, we believe the finish is at least equivalent to 1000 grit.