Good news for those who hate raking leaves in autumn Instead you can keep them there and make leaf mold. What is leaf mold? Leaf mold compost is a simple process that allows you to break down your fallen leaves for future use in gardens and flower beds.
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If you want to go down the electric route for leaf shredding you can put the leaves into a plastic barrel or a dustbin or even just a large cardboard box. Then use your strimmer like a hand held food blender. It's quick and does a really good job of chopping the leaves up and probably gives you smaller pieces which of course will decompose quicker. There's an American chap who has video's this, I'll try and find you the details.
Great stuff and great info! Where I live, in the nearest town, people bag up their leaves in large paper bags and leave them on the curb to be picked up by the garbage service. I am planning to go around asking if I can have them. I could have my husband mow over them, and I might. I am thinking of putting some in a large metal trash can and using the weed eater to chop them up.
Every year I say I'm going to get the kids to collect leaves for making leaf mould and every year we never quite get round to it. I want to start importing far less fertility and producing more of it ourselves so I should really make the effort this year.
I run my leaves through my DR Power chipper shredder. I dump them in the top hopper twice and they reduce to 1/8" pieces and smaller.
Es milu tevi videos ļoti daudz!