start collecting those leaves folks!

[Two_Sheds]

Will the seeds rot down along with the leaves?

Everything rots eventually. Just leave them in the bags for long enough, until you can't see seeds or leaves any more.
Once rotted, the seeds can't germinate.

[rustylady]

Tidied the front drive at work yesterday, and picked up a sackfull of leaves that had blown in from nearby trees. Just need to work out how to get them home.

[Pumpkin Becki]

I always collect the sycamore leaves from our first garden, but the new house has a sycamore and a horse chestnut, and the horse chestnut suffers badly from leaf miner (it looks like its in a little patch of November while the rest of the country is in July).

I think it helps keep the population of this pest down if I collect the leaves up, but I'm unhappy about leaf-moulding them incase I'm just giving them somewhere warm to live for the winter. OH is talking about getting a garden incinerator bin, so maybe I'll burn the leaves and use the ash on the garden instead.

[Eco-Chic]

Do any of you compost acorns and does anyone know whether they break down at a comparable rate to other general stuff in composter? 0r are they like tomato seeds passing through the digestive system -emerge intact?

Why not mash them up in the food processor to speed up the composting process?

[Bren In Pots]

My wire cage is almost full of leaves and I don't think it will hold much more so it looks like the next lot will be going in bags.

[poly]

Oooh so many leaves coming down in the garden, picked up 3 bagfuls earlier. They are all so dry, you can hear them tinkling as they fall down through the branches

[Two_Sheds]

we've had a really windy night, so I'm off out leaf-stealing again today. Mr S raises his eyebrows at the growing pile of plastic bags in our garden, but they are shoring up our broken fence

[Bren In Pots]

Doesn't it soon get you warm raking up those leaves.

[TonyF]

3 bags, I wish. J has raked up seven huge piles today and there's still about 50% of the leaves left on the trees! But then I do have 2.5 acres of woods but that lots just from the bit closest to the house!

[HeyWayne]

3 bags, I wish. J has raked up seven huge piles today and there's still about 50% of the leaves left on the trees! But then I do have 2.5 acres of woods but that lots just from the bit closest to the house!

A case of "can't see the woods for the leaves" eh Tony?

It's more the acorns they give me grief. Makes the lawn horrible to stand on barefoot (in the summertime).

[pipkins]

I acquired a couple of bags of leaves last night the nice men from the council bag them up and leave them round the edge of the common for collection to go to landfill.

Will be keeping the peepers open for more

[Bramble_killer]

We've got a whole lawn covered in leaves but both of us are working too hard and too tired to collect them

Here's hoping some of them will have decomposed a bit by the time we get to it with the leaf sucker.

[Bren In Pots]

Its been really windy here today so I've raked the lawn twice and managed to fill a whole bag.

[Two_Sheds]

I just got 7 bags full from the lotty carpark: nobody else bothers to rake them up, so mine all mine

[Bigmallly]

I just got 7 bags full from the lotty carpark: nobody else bothers to rake them up, so mine all mine

Sounds like you have struck gold TS........are they really that good?...it's new to me.