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Brians Tip for Free Compost

Posted on Nov 24, 2008 under garden advice | No Comment

By late November, usually following stormy weather, most of the trees in and around your garden will have dumped their leaves over your lawn and flower beds.

Rather than just gather them up and throw them into your brown bin for collection, here’s a handy tip to make use of those leaves next year.

Recycling your autumn leaves is one of the best ways to get free compost.

Here’s all you have to do.

* Take a good sized black bin liner and put a few holes in the side and bottom.
* Gather up leaves and stuff them into the bin liner.
* When almost full, sprinkle with water, shake and tie.
* Store in a shady spot, (most people have some spare room behind a garden
shed or in a corner somewhere), and by next autumn the leaves will have
rotted down into a rich, crumbly mixture that you can use as a mulch around
the base of your plants.
* If you want to use the leaves to add to the soil as growing compost, then
leave them alone for a second year.

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