At last - a donation of leaves.

Last night a neighbour telephoned to say he had 4 large bags of leaves for me. I picked up the builders bags this morning. Two fitted into the back of the Shogun and two in trailer. I wasn't sure if I could fit all the leaves into my leaf bin but even before this I needed to transfer the contents of one bin into the other. It took quite a while to remove the stuff, carpet and netting, I had left on top of the composting leaves and then quite a bit of effort to fork and shovel everything over to the other bin. Much of it will be ready to use next Spring. I then emptied two bags into the newly emptied bin and trod it down before finding the other two bags would fit in and once trodden down only half filled the bin. Room for more! I covered both bins with carpet.
Not having any other tools with me I wondered what I could do. I found my ball of string in the shed so I set about tying up the summer raspberries and staking the rather tall broad bean plants from the Trading Hut that I am using to fill in the gaps left after my mouse/rat attack.
I finished just as the rain started to fall so was grateful to get into the shelter of my car and drive home for lunch.