On another thread Fu wrote :There really is no better way than just buying a garden shredder/chipper and run all your clippings through that and spreading it stright back onto the garden You get a more efficient horizontal compost heap All the nutrients are returned to the soil slowly and many woodier plants will make for excellent mulch
Now my question to Fu would be what kind of shredder would he recommend as it looks like he has some experience. We have an industrial Granberg with Briggs & Straton engine. Works fine but... after 20 years of operating this baby I no longer can start it, heavy and #^**+% difficult to start for a female nearing 60, though DH has no problems with it . As I have always done most of the gardening I hate to rely on others to "help" me so I was thinking an electric one . Now which one is powerful but relatively easy to operate, light to move and what about the shredding parts, how often do they need sharpening/changing. If anybody could advise that would be absolutely magnificent
Maggie