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Old 30-10-2004, 06:44 AM
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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.

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Old 30-10-2004, 08:45 AM
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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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Old 30-10-2004, 11:56 AM
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"Diane Epps" wrote in message
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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?


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"Diane Epps" wrote in message
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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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Old 31-10-2004, 02:52 PM
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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.

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Never drive faster than your angel can fly
I've used a leaf vacuum on gravel - it's hopeless if the leaves are wet but Ok if dry, so long as you don't get too close.


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Old 31-10-2004, 03:14 PM
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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.
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Old 02-11-2004, 05:52 PM
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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.
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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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