Composting leaves

[daffodilbrain]

I'm about to have lots of leaves fall in my garden. Courtesy of my pleached hornbeams. Can we just put them in black plastic bags and store them in a corner of the garden and use as compost next spring or is there something else I should be doing with them?

As long as they are wet when you put them in the bags it should be ok - although they might not be ready by the spring, you might need to wait until the year after.

I think you are supposed to have holes in the bin bags so air can get in to aid the composting process? And yes they can take ages!

Buy a compost bin. Mine was £15 I think and you can chuck all your veg waste, dead flowers, bit of grass cuttings etc in

I have a leafmould bin in a quiet corner .....
Three bamboos stuck into the ground and a hoop of chicken wire
all leaves go into it
and stay until they look like soil - a couple of years

alternatively, compost them in the main bin