Paul Below wrote in message . ..
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:37:52 GMT, dommy
wrote:

However my other bag which I shreded with garden shear (unfortunatly
dont have a shredder) and wetted has already started to turn into a
brown/blackish color after only 3 weeks.

I run over them with the lawn mower to shred them.

that's how we do ours and leave some on the yard, especially if there
are grass seeds in them, then the next bunch without the seed, we put
on the garden. last fall i did fill one large black plastic bag with
the shreded leaves and some soil and wet it down some as i filled it
with the shredded leaves and green trimmings from the garden and tied
it closed and once a week about i turned it over a few times to areate
it and this summer i had some prety good looking soil! i had an area
that i did not plan on planting for a while and poured it on there to
finish decaying. looking good.
lee h