Thanks, will do.

Aileen
"bigboard" wrote in message
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Aileen Howard wrote:
Mike

I do all the gardening anyway. I occasionally use him as labourer when
the
digging gets too hard, but he has to look at the results, and just hates
compost bins/heaps, whatever. Still, he has to 'shell out' for lots of
bags
of compost instead

Regards, Aileen

PS What about the leaves? Do I bag them or throw them away?

Bag them. Making leaf mould takes longer than normal compost though.
Depending on conditions, it may be two years before you have useable
material.