@Songbird-2 Here's a photo of the platform I made to put the bulk bags on. You could make it of concrete inside a wooden former but I wasn't sure I'd be able to do a good job of concrete and I decided to lay these slabs, so I just needed to mix mortar to lay them on and they're a nice smooth finish. In this case it was very firm ground and we had made a path out of small stones which had consolidated over the years so that was a good base. I think on soil or soft ground you might have to hammer stones or rubble in to make a good base before putting slabs down. I laid them with a slight fall away from the shed.
In hindsight: The bags are 3ft square and the platform is 6ft x 3 ft so just right for two bags side by side. BUT they spread when the leaves are settling so really I ought to have made the platform bigger, maybe 8ft x 4ft using 8 2ft x 2ft slabs ( I used 8 18" x 18".) Also, I should have kept them further away from the wood of the shed. I painted that part before filling the bags for the first time but the wet bags have rubbed some paint off. Your shed is probably better than my old cart shed, so do make sure it doesn't get wet from the bags! In fairness, there isn't a lot of room to put my wheelbarrow alongside, that's why I did it like that but if I was doing it again I'd bear these points in mind.
The second photo was October last year, starting to fill the first bag. You can see how they bulge! The bits of weldmesh on top of the leaves are to prevent them from blowing away until they get wetted by rain. In my case it was important that there was a complete layer of cement under the slabs and the joints, to keep honey fungus out. Hope this helps.
If you have the room for two bags, you could fill one each autumn but leave it for two years. I dont need to wet the leaves as I live in an area of adequate rainfall but you may need to check that they're not too dry. The top few inches tends to dry out but here the rest of the bag usually stays moist (this year was slighty different in the summer but there was so much rain when the heatwaves stopped that the bags got rather too wet.)
Thanks for photos @Woodgreen, that looks a nice, tidy, contained leaf mould area, just what I like. However, seeing yours I'm not sure we have enough space now....it's only is a small triangular area not much bigger than maybe four strides by two to three strides wide. Our mould area would be small.
Could I still do it I wonder? I reckon there maybe enough room for a couple of those slabs and a mesh wire thing/ container? The whole are was covered by previous owners with bark which we've left. We did plant a nice slow growing shrub in the middle of the area( which is doing very nicely,actually) so space is really limited.
Might have a word with Oh to see if we can put down a couple of slabs, securely and level( it gets exceedingly damp found there) and give it a go.
Many thanks for your help and encouragement @Woodgreen, you've spurred me on!
Hello @Fire. Are you a mind reader or something? 😀😀😀 I was walking about the garden this morning (back ache, so very little work done) and thought about going back to my threads to see what I had learnt.
I found one about moving Euphorbia x Martinii. I did and it did not survive as predicted by @rachelQrtJHBjb.
You could even just use old large compost bags, tied up to keep the moisture in @Songbird-2. The leafmould and compost making threads illustrate how many different ways there are for us to successfully use waste material to make soil enriching products. I do it this way because of honey fungus and because I like a dry area underfoot to work in at wetter times of the year. Tailor it to your space, conditions and what makes you happy!
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Here's a photo of the platform I made to put the bulk bags on.
You could make it of concrete inside a wooden former but I wasn't sure I'd be able to do a good job of concrete and I decided to lay these slabs, so I just needed to mix mortar to lay them on and they're a nice smooth finish.
In this case it was very firm ground and we had made a path out of small stones which had consolidated over the years so that was a good base.
I think on soil or soft ground you might have to hammer stones or rubble in to make a good base before putting slabs down.
I laid them with a slight fall away from the shed.
In hindsight:
The bags are 3ft square and the platform is 6ft x 3 ft so just right for two bags side by side.
BUT they spread when the leaves are settling so really I ought to have made the platform bigger, maybe 8ft x 4ft using 8 2ft x 2ft slabs ( I used 8 18" x 18".)
Also, I should have kept them further away from the wood of the shed. I painted that part before filling the bags for the first time but the wet bags have rubbed some paint off. Your shed is probably better than my old cart shed, so do make sure it doesn't get wet from the bags!
In fairness, there isn't a lot of room to put my wheelbarrow alongside, that's why I did it like that but if I was doing it again I'd bear these points in mind.
The second photo was October last year, starting to fill the first bag. You can see how they bulge! The bits of weldmesh on top of the leaves are to prevent them from blowing away until they get wetted by rain.
In my case it was important that there was a complete layer of cement under the slabs and the joints, to keep honey fungus out.
Hope this helps.
If you have the room for two bags, you could fill one each autumn but leave it for two years. I dont need to wet the leaves as I live in an area of adequate rainfall but you may need to check that they're not too dry. The top few inches tends to dry out but here the rest of the bag usually stays moist (this year was slighty different in the summer but there was so much rain when the heatwaves stopped that the bags got rather too wet.)
Could I still do it I wonder? I reckon there maybe enough room for a couple of those slabs and a mesh wire thing/ container? The whole are was covered by previous owners with bark which we've left. We did plant a nice slow growing shrub in the middle of the area( which is doing very nicely,actually) so space is really limited.
Might have a word with Oh to see if we can put down a couple of slabs, securely and level( it gets exceedingly damp found there) and give it a go.
Many thanks for your help and encouragement @Woodgreen, you've spurred me on!
I found one about moving Euphorbia x Martinii. I did and it did not survive as predicted by @rachelQrtJHBjb.
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I do it this way because of honey fungus and because I like a dry area underfoot to work in at wetter times of the year. Tailor it to your space, conditions and what makes you happy!
Thanks to pushkinias message. A whole new world.