Storing fall leaves for winter?

[Spartan22]

Was thinking about this yesterday.....funny it came back up today.
What do you mean by "contractor bags"?
I'm guessing plastic garbage bags....maybe heavier and larger than household plastic garbage bags?

Contractors grade garbage bags are normally 4-6 mil (thick plastic bags) I love using them for clean up when I trim my hedges, It doesn't tear easy with sharp poking branches. Cost more but worth it.

 

[aart]

I never put any yard waste or even house garbage in plastic....it can't rot when encased without oxygen.
But I have big property so can just haul stuff off into the woods if it doesn't work in the chicken run.

But I would like to save some DRY leaves to distribute over the winter,
have already filled a few old feed bags and stored in shed,
as well as transferring a couple hundred gallons into the runs.

Hoping to gather some more if it stays dry enough this fall.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

I went out this afternoon and raked up dry pine needles and leaves, trying to beat the rain (figures that it hasn't rained in like 2 weeks, but today it does

)...managed to get two large garbage bags full of them and set them in the garage, slightly open at the top. Using pine shavings in the brooder is driving me batty - the dust is terrible! I had goggles and a mask on while scooping out the dirty shavings because the dust was so bad. I'd rather replace some other type of bedding more often if it's not as dusty as pine shavings...and the pines and maples are helpfully dropping their leaves as I type this. If the pine needle/leaf combo works in the brooder, I may try it in the duck coop on top of shavings, too. When things dry out again, there are probably at least 4 or 5 more bags of leaves there for the raking.