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To what degree do leaves compress in the first year?

I envisage a pile of up to 8 cubic metres of Sweet Chestnut, Horse Chestnut,
Beech and Sycamore and others as starters.

Too much for the black bag method these would be 'compounded' so to speak.
Dry leaves have in the past been bonfired :-((

Autumn could bring grass cuttings AND cut fallen leaves added to a
'compound' on the second year, OR a new 'compound', recommended?

How soon could these be used? How many 'compounds'? ............ 3? then
clear and rotate?


I would say each foot of loose leaves will be less than one inch by the
end of the first year, I use mine as a mulch during the second year
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea