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collecting leaves from chipped slate
Does anyone have any bright ideas of how I can collect the leaves which have
fallen all over a large chipped slate area? Hand knees and elbow grease is the method I have so far employed. -- Never drive faster than your angel can fly |
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"Diane Epps" wrote in message .. . Does anyone have any bright ideas of how I can collect the leaves which have fallen all over a large chipped slate area? Hand knees and elbow grease is the method I have so far employed. Try an electric garden blower/vac. It really does blow the leaves into a corner where you can pick it up Franz |
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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message ... "Diane Epps" wrote in message .. . Does anyone have any bright ideas of how I can collect the leaves which have fallen all over a large chipped slate area? Hand knees and elbow grease is the method I have so far employed. Try an electric garden blower/vac. It really does blow the leaves into a corner where you can pick it up Certainly the wind around here, particularly recently, has kept my gravelled areas totally free of fallen leaves. I guess if the chipped slate was very small maybe a vacuum would lift them as well? -- Chris Thomas West Cork Ireland |
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"Cerumen" wrote in message ... "Franz Heymann" wrote in message ... "Diane Epps" wrote in message .. . Does anyone have any bright ideas of how I can collect the leaves which have fallen all over a large chipped slate area? Hand knees and elbow grease is the method I have so far employed. Try an electric garden blower/vac. It really does blow the leaves into a corner where you can pick it up Certainly the wind around here, particularly recently, has kept my gravelled areas totally free of fallen leaves. I guess if the chipped slate was very small maybe a vacuum would lift them as well? I suggested a blower action, not a vacuum action. Having said that, I have a small spot covered with gravel pieces of approximately 1 cm in dimension, and the vacuum has not sucked them up at all. Franz |
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I have had the same problem with ash keys and leaves falling on my chipped
slate path. After a great deal of back breaking work trying to pick both up from the slate chippings, I finished up putting the lot in buckets of water. The leaves and keys floated to the surface leaving the chipped slate submerged. All I then had to do was skim all the vegetable matter from the bucket putting the washed slate chippings back on the path. Still quite a job, but at least I managed to save all the slate which is not cheap to buy in my area. D.D. --- "Diane Epps" wrote in a message: snip Does anyone have any bright ideas of how I can collect the leaves which have fallen all over a large chipped slate area? |
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Leaves, yes! Unfortunately not ash keys. They fell everywhere last autumn
and were a devil to collect. This summer I moved house so someone else has the job. In his Guardian gardening column last weekend, Chris Lloyd said that he *LIKES* ash trees. How can he? He obviously hadn't seen the four monsters that shaded my old garden. D.D. --- "Janet Baraclough." replied: snip Why not rake them ? Use a long-tine springy rake (not the kind you use for raking soil/beds).That's how we get leaves off (miles of) gravel paths in a garden near here; |
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