Leaf collecting.

[Scoot]

Come on then, who's doing it?

I done it last year and just added the dead leaves to my compost bin with my kitchen waste and garden waste. It looks like its made great compost. Some people keep the leaves separate and make leaf mould, I just throw them in my compost bin.

Been out the last few nights with my bin liner under the cover of darkness so no one thinks im a weirdo collecting a few bin liners worth. My neighbours must already think im weird with some of the stuff I do in the garden without them seeing me collecting leaves and taking them home.

[Snadger]

I don't need to, my plot is on the edge of a wood and the trees drop lots of leaves on my plot!

[Gillykat]

With the amount of leaves falling this past week I am VERY tempted Apparently Beech leaves are very good so perhaps I should nip along with a few black bags tomorrow evening and collect a load from the path alongside the Alnwick Garden

[veggiechicken]

Just like Snadger, my leaves are delivered to the garden so I just need to rake them up, again and again and again!
Mostly oak and ash but the oak hasn't dropped its leaves yet. The ash are almost bare.

[sparrow100]

I am a smuglet.

The gardeners who do my block have left me a builders bag full. I'll get another each week till the end of Nov. Now I just have to ferry them to my plot...

[Baldy]

My neighbours must already think im weird with some of the stuff I do in the garden without them seeing me collecting leaves and taking them home.

Do tell more
... or perhaps not...

[Jay-ell]

I have a couple of auto-mulching beds. The trees next to my plot just drop their leaves onto them - I just have to rake up the ones on the path. At the moment they look gloriously red from all the bird cherry leaves

[bramble]

Yes, I collect them every year and store thrm in plastic containers until they rot down. I dig them in when they are rotted and always put a thick layer under the potstoes.

[Root66]

I will when I get time. Last years collection is breaking down nicely.

[happyhumph]

Have been using fancy new leaf collector appropriated from my dad which shreds them for you!

[Cadalot]

The local council have offered to drop some off to our allotment, but it also contains so much litter that it's not worth it as it takes too much sorting. I have in the past done early morning raids at a hospital car park and bagged up a car full and taken to the plot.

Now my daughter arranges for me to collect all the leafs that drop in Nursery garden where she works and are bagged up so I don't have to go and find them, I just dispose of them for her workplace.

[Nicos]

OH raked up a whole pile a couple of days ago and has smothered our largest bed with them.
Going to cover them with cardboard we saved from our new kitchen units then cover with grass clippings.
Hopefully that'll make a huge difference to the very dry, powdery bed for next year!

Still loads to collect just in our garden and field!

Free compost!....ya can never collect enough!

[happyhumph]

I always do a dog poo collection first. Quite tricky as from a distance poo & leaves look very similar.

[Jay-ell]

I always do a dog poo collection first. Quite tricky as from a distance poo & leaves look very similar.

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[happyhumph]

I'm quite good at spotting it so who knows