If you’ve never made leaf mould before, make this the year you start. Stack leaves loosely in a chickenwire pen to prevent them blowing away. If space is limited, simply bag them up in bin liners, tied securely with a bit of string to prevent spillage as you move them somewhere unobtrusive. Beech, plane and oak leaves are slower to rot than most, so avoid too many of them in your mixture. They do say that you can speed up decomposition by weeing on the leaves, but I've never tried it myself. In a year, with or without organic additions, you’ll have a coarse product suitable for use as a mulch for digging into the top few centimetres of soil. | 
