[Sweetpea C]

This post is making me excited about autumn and leaves! I've got pallets so will use those 

[Grubbypaws]

I forgot to mention that I gather the leaves with the lawnmower so they are 'chopped' before going in the bin. I dont know if this makes a difference or not but it seems to make sense and is the easiest way to gather them.

[mumofstig]

Tis what Monty Don recommends 

[compostqueen]

I use builders rubble sacks as well. Small is beautiful in compost terms and the daleks heat up very quickly. I like the portability too.   I keep manure in some of my daleks, and I had to laugh as you could see steam escaping from the top and hatch and the colour of the dalek fading to grey 

[JayG]

I rake my privet hedge clippings onto the lawn and then cut the lawn and chop the clippings all in one go - lawn cut, grass mixed in with chopped clippings, not too much bending down - great. 

Chopping leaves the same way would also work, although you would of course be mixing at least some grass in with them. I don't bother because the leaves I collect are from the street trees so have to be picked up the hard way anyway.

Chopping does speed up decomposition by increasing the surface area for the flora and fauna to get stuck into, although you need to be a bit more careful not to overdo the packing in because you don't want to exclude all the air from the compost pile.

[compostqueen]

I keep leaves separate.  I put the grass mowings into builders rubble sacks too and it rots down like mad.  I used it in the potato growing beds as I read it helped with potato scab. I had expected a slimy brown mess but it was quite dry and crumbly. It had been in the corner of the plot between two hedges so was not exactly in full sun