Garden vacs

[hecciesmum]

OK - I;ve had it! I'm fed up with picking leaves out of my flower beds all autumn, winter and spring, so I've decided to give into the devil and look at a garden vac.

Apologies if the topic has been done before, but does anyone have any recommendations on which vac to go for. My thoughts were that it would have to be at least 2200 watts, be able to mulch as well, and for me it has to be electric.

I never thought I would end up resenting some trees so much, but we have a 70 year old copper beech in front of the house and it's like 2 swimming pools of leaves every winter that drop off!

We left our leaves on the soil, like a mulch.

if you hoover up the leaves then make a container and leave them for ages they will rot down into beautiful leafmould which will be the envy of your gardening friends. You can leave them in binliners with holes stabbed in tehm, or make a wire netting container and leave them in that. It shrinks massively - every year fill a wire netting container 1metre across and high, and two years later the leafmould is about a foot deep in the bottom. A very good excuse to buy a vacuum thingy