"Jim Chisholm" wrote in message
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On 11/11/2011 14:52, Janet Tweedy wrote:
Anyone got any views on push leaf sweepers. Not the blower sucker kind
which don't ever seem to stand up to the claims by their manufacturers
but those ones that you just push along. They seem to have larger
containers.

Janet
I've just collected all the ones on my lawn and paths with a rotary mower.
It does fill the bag rather quickly, and three bags fill the barrow (must
make an extender..).
Hopefully just a couple more rounds before all the leaves are down
They all go (ready chopped up) squashed down and wet into one of those
'big' 1m cube bags.
Before next autumn they'll have broken down enough to act as mulch.
I do suffer with leaves as there are Sycamores in both neighbouring
gardens

Jim


If I am looking after my daughter and son in law's house at me his time of
the year, I gather the leaves into a pile, scoop them up with some special
scoops designed for the job, and put them into a wheelie bin I trundle
around behind me. The advantage being you can really press them down and get
a lot in, whereas you are limited with a wheelbarrow.

That is off the drive and paths. Those on the lawns are mowed to a mulch
with a sit on mower.

Mike

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