Got a question about our products or recycling?
Yes, you can pick up from Jeffries directly. We are located inside the Wingfield Waste and Recycling Centre at 412 Hanson Road North, Wingfield SA. Or, you can pick up from one of or fantastic reseller’s closest to you. Find out what reseller is closest to you here.
Alternatively you can order online and get it delivered to your driveway
If you are wanting a mulch to break down and add organic matter to your soil quickly you would choose a fine mulch like our Jeffries Forest Mulch. This is a much finer mulch, meaning that the mulch will break down faster.
A late Autumn mulch will provide a ‘blanket’ to keep the soil warm over the cold winter period. Mulching at this time also helps suppress the winter and spring weeds and provides organic matter which can break down ready to feed your plants in springtime.
The second mulch time is to top up your mulch to 8 – 10cm deep at the end of Spring before the searing heat of summer. This is a particularly important time to mulch to keep the moisture in the soil and to keep the soil cool, to maintain weed control and to provide the best insurance for keeping your garden thriving over summer.
You can mulch more or less often than this depending on your soil, climate, weeds, the look you want for your garden and the type of mulch you are using. Course mulch takes longer to break down than fine mulch.
Because we want the mulch to provide long term nutritional benefit for our plants and return carbon to the soil as well as providing weed suppression and temperature control the best mulch is an organic, composted mulch.
An organic composted mulch will decompose and improve soil fertility and organic content providing long term benefits for your garden and plants. A thick layer of organic mulch will also provide good weed suppression and will keep soil cool in the heat of summer, and warm through the winter months which is good for soil structure as well as for maintaining the microbial diversity in the soil.
The best mulch you can use is organic and composted mulch. When organic matter is composted, then screened for size, you can be sure that the mulch does not contain harmful levels of pathogens and things like weed seeds. Mulches that haven’t been composted may contain harmful levels of pathogens like e-coli and salmonella, and often contain weed seeds that then infest your garden.
For more information on why you should use an organic composted mulch click here.
Serious gardeners will tell you that the best time to apply your organic mulch is twice a year, at the end of Autumn and at the beginning of Summer.
A late Autumn mulch will provide a ‘blanket’ to keep the soil warm over the cold winter period. Mulching at this time also helps suppress the winter and spring weeds and provides organic matter which can break down ready to feed your plants in springtime.
The second mulch time is to top up your mulch to 8 – 10cm deep at the end of Spring before the searing heat of summer. This is a particularly important time to mulch to keep the moisture in
Jeffries mulch is composted and so has less pathogens than un-composted mulch. Like any garden product we do recommend using gloves when you apply it. The colour that we use for our Forever Range of mulch is organic and not poisonous if any creatures eat it.
However, if mulch has been consumed we recommend seeking medical advice.
Mushrooms & fungal growth in woody mulch products is common during wet, cool & humid periods. This is part of the natural breakdown process.
We recommend raking the mulch layer to help aerate it and dry it up. We also like to remind you to use protective gloves and dust masks when raking.
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Please check with your local council to confirm that you can put dog poo in your green bin.
Food scraps will smell in any bin regardless (it is the nature of that type of material). To help reduce the odour you can freeze potentially smelly scraps in the freezer until your green organics collection day. Placing green organic material, such as leaves, shredded paper and lawn clippings on top of food in the green organics bin can also decrease odour, as can leaving your lid open occasionally to let air into your bin to reduce the (extra) smelly bacteria that likes to chomp on your organics. Another handy tip is wrapping all food in newspaper or using compostable bags/caddy liners.
You can put your compostable plastics in the compost bin as long as they meet the Australian Commercial Composting Standard AS 4736 or are Certified Home Compostable to AS 5810. This standard is the only one that has a guaranteed toxicity test to guarantee safety for worms and plants and correctly compost at Jeffries facility.
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Any non compostable materials cannot go into our bins. This includes:
For councils that Jeffries recycles for, the organic material will be transformed into premium compost that is then used to improve the soil and grow more plants.
For more information on what happens to your organic material click here.
Yes, you can put shredded paper into the compost bin. You can also put paper towels and serviettes into the bin.
There is still a vast amount of food scraps going into the waste bin and sent to landfill (‘the dump’) where they create methane, a greenhouse gas with 21 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2). Wasted food also wastes the energy, water, money and resources used to produce, process, store and transport the food. Recycling food allows it to be reused in a sustainable manner and processed into quality Organic Compost and returned into the garden to produce more vegetables, truly closing the loop on organics recycling.