Finally found an electrical wholesaler who couldn't care less what went in the lamp bin
Third fill a blender with water, then cram leaves in the feed hole while it's running. You will make a thick leaf soup. Short supple stems are fine. Long hard one's will rope up the blades. You will need to chop the twigs up and find a garden bin. A paper bag is a good carrying option with places like Morrisons now selling them as shopping bags. Bio-degradable and normal looking.
I have found a few hours trimming is just a blender or two. So you can do a bit each day, with no fear of keeping leaves around to mould up and spread spores. The twigs can wait...
Get a blender with some guts. The power rating or it's ability to do ice cubes is a good sign. Blender though, not a food processor.
The soup will stain surfaces. It will even taint the porcelain for a day. Keep flushing with each load, and running the tap won't hurt, to wash it along the sewer.
A garden chipper won't do wet leaves but might disguise twigs well. I didn't find them useful though.
You can get stick blenders that resemble pneumatic road picks. Big motors and long shafts that can blend a 20L bucket.
Horses for courses
