A serious 220V leaf vacuum for loose bamboo leaves on a gravel garden? £100 or so?
VACUUM, not blower. I had a Bosch blower/vacuum and the vacuum leaf collection performance was pathetic. A blower is not much use in the gravel garden because the only place to blow leaves to is onto the flower borders along the surrounding trellis.
I have read some reviews of blower/vacuums and they show the blower piling up the leaves and then the vacuum sucking up the heap of leaves, this is of no use to me.
My rotary lawn mower picks leaves up off the LAWN very well, while mowing the grass, being a vacuum cyclone in itself, but of course I cannot easily roll this across GRAVEL.
If I had a decent lightweight vacuum/cyclone device I could roll it or hand-swing it over the gravel frequently so that the bamboo leaves are still dry and loose, not damp and matted down.
Any suggestions, please?
I have read some reviews of blower/vacuums and they show the blower piling up the leaves and then the vacuum sucking up the heap of leaves, this is of no use to me.
My rotary lawn mower picks leaves up off the LAWN very well, while mowing the grass, being a vacuum cyclone in itself, but of course I cannot easily roll this across GRAVEL.
If I had a decent lightweight vacuum/cyclone device I could roll it or hand-swing it over the gravel frequently so that the bamboo leaves are still dry and loose, not damp and matted down.
Any suggestions, please?
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But thanks for the suggestion.
A little light skimming with a grass rake and/or stiff-bristle broom tends to loosen the bamboo leaves, but at the moment I get down on my knees and pick the leaves up with bare fingers - even gloves get in the way. A "mini-grass-rake" for using while kneeling might help.