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Dead leaves can make excellent compost, but if you try to compost them whole you come up against two problems: 1) They take up far more room in the composter than they should; and 2) They take a lot longer than you’d expect to compost.
The answer is to shred them first. You can go the old fashioned route and run them over repeatedly with the lawnmower before you gather them up and dump them in the composter, or you can take advantage of modern technology and use an electric leaf shredder. One of these handy gizmos can reduce ten or eleven bags of leaves to just one in next to no time.
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