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The Urban Silo.

A few summers ago I had a lot of leaves to deal with and wanted to save them for my garden. I did not want to build a large box where they might rot and be hard to use. I always use stucco wire staked in to the ground to support my plants on. I got the idea to make the urban silo. It is a quick and easy structure to hold leaves and grass clippings. This will allow air through the leaves to dry, so I can use them next year to get more organic matter in the garden, and to prevent my not great soil from drying out so fast. This empty one is 26 inches by 4 feet tall. At the top are 2 more one for grass and one for leaves and I think they do not look that bad in the yard and can easily be dragged in to the garden and shaken out for tilling in.

I am most likely not the first to have this idea but it works great.

I think that's a great idea! I wonder if I could get my husband to make me one. I could really use that, I have so many leaves in my yard each fall from my neighbors tree.

That is a great idea!!

Sure is a great idea....

I have lots of that fencing here...

OK, 3 days ago, I posted this picture above, of my idea for storing leaves, for next years use. I got up this morning to a pleasant morning with no frost on the windshield. I went to work at just before 5:am and had a pleasant 20 minute drive to work and when I could not install the pedestal and kitchen sink with dishwasher I started back to the shop after a couple of quick stops to check on jobs. It was snowing very lightly in Airdre north of Calgary when I got to the city limits traffic was so bad it took 3 hours to do the last 15 minutes and this is what I found in my yard/garden.

I affectionately call it Oh darn it was a toss up between that and holy darn... lol. Oppps I used a bad word in the Oh darn section so I hope this does not affect the jpg name...!

wow glad it's you! but it is pretty!