I've got bags of "processing" leaf mould just like yours, Cloggie. Last summer bumble bees nested in one of them, resulting in a no-go area behind my shed - the ideal, cast-iron excuse to be a slob. Mustn't disturb the wildlife.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Does it work? It has quite large holes in it that trellis.
My leaf mould looked the same on Wednesday as it did last October except that the magpies had thrown it round the place so I bunged it in the compost bin and muddled it through some grass with a stick! Maybe next year I'll try your bucket and pot method.
Oh, how lovely. It's a rainy Sunday morning, I have sore feet and a bit of a hangover
GEORGE is here to greet me (thank you cloggie) I love George and all his freaky weirdness.
I had (past tense) two bags of leaf mould festering away somewhere in the garden, but can't find them anywhere. Think maybe Mr Kitty has chucked them away that's the risk you take using black bin bags. 18 months of minimal work gone
A good friend of mine brought home all his team's mucky kit from the boxing day match in black bags.
He has three children who received lots of lovely presents at Christmas with associated packaging.
A week later when he asked wifey where the clean kit was........
They spent New Year's at the tip head trying to narrow down where their street's rubbish had been dumped and when.
£800 thank you very much!
You'd think he would have learned his lesson. When we were youngsters he had a bag full of motor bike "lifted" from his driveway by the bin men!!!! Goat!
Those biodegradable bags are a bit of a hazard for sloths. I picked one up yesterday and it disintegrated into little black squares. Maybe that's what happened to your compost, kitty.
I remember once watching my purse and jacket, which I had left in a carrier bag, being tipped out of the wheelie bin and into the jaws of death. At least when I cancelled my cards, I could tell them roughly where they were
PP no it doesn't work, you are correct that the holes are too large to hide the mess and I forgot to mention but if you look closely, there is a disconnected ballcock to the bottom left of the picture which is visible from the living room as I write this!
I "salvaged" a cold water tank when we had a new boiler put in (not actually sure if it was ours but British Gas left it out for the collectors so I ... er ... collected it and stashed it away in one of my .. erm .. collection areas). I was going to regulate collections of rain in it and have an overflow that fed a drip feed watering system to my mini allotment behind the shed.
You have second-guessed me already I know, I was too slothful to do that!
I use the tank to stand pots in when I've repotted something but the ballcock got in the way hence ....!
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See the trellis placed just so to hide the mess from passers by..
also the benefit is that weeds do not grow if they are forced to sweat under a pile of damp black plastic bags.
I've got bags of "processing" leaf mould just like yours, Cloggie.
Last summer bumble bees nested in one of them, resulting in a no-go area behind my shed - the ideal, cast-iron excuse to be a slob. Mustn't disturb the wildlife. 
Does it work? It has quite large holes in it that trellis.
My leaf mould looked the same on Wednesday as it did last October except that the magpies had thrown it round the place so I bunged it in the compost bin and muddled it through some grass with a stick! Maybe next year I'll try your bucket and pot method.
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Yuk cloggie. Well done
Oh, how lovely.
It's a rainy Sunday morning, I have sore feet and a bit of a hangover 
GEORGE is here to greet me
(thank you cloggie) I love George and all his freaky weirdness.
I had (past tense) two bags of leaf mould festering away somewhere in the garden, but can't find them anywhere. Think maybe Mr Kitty has chucked them away
that's the risk you take using black bin bags. 18 months of minimal work gone 
You want to watch that throwing stuff out Kitty.
A good friend of mine brought home all his team's mucky kit from the boxing day match in black bags.
He has three children who received lots of lovely presents at Christmas with associated packaging.
A week later when he asked wifey where the clean kit was........
They spent New Year's at the tip head trying to narrow down where their street's rubbish had been dumped and when.
£800 thank you very much!
You'd think he would have learned his lesson. When we were youngsters he had a bag full of motor bike "lifted" from his driveway by the bin men!!!! Goat!
Those biodegradable bags are a bit of a hazard for sloths. I picked one up yesterday and it disintegrated into little black squares. Maybe that's what happened to your compost, kitty.
I remember once watching my purse and jacket, which I had left in a carrier bag, being tipped out of the wheelie bin and into the jaws of death. At least when I cancelled my cards, I could tell them roughly where they were
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PP no it doesn't work, you are correct that the holes are too large to hide the mess and I forgot to mention but if you look closely, there is a disconnected ballcock to the bottom left of the picture which is visible from the living room as I write this!
I "salvaged" a cold water tank when we had a new boiler put in (not actually sure if it was ours but British Gas left it out for the collectors so I ... er ... collected it and stashed it away in one of my .. erm .. collection areas). I was going to regulate collections of rain in it and have an overflow that fed a drip feed watering system to my mini allotment behind the shed.
You have second-guessed me already I know, I was too slothful to do that!
I use the tank to stand pots in when I've repotted something but the ballcock got in the way hence ....!
The road to sloth is paved with good intentions and cemented by procrastination