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Bucket of rotting food might confuse most cops? (7)

("most" also used to indicate reduced length of "cops" for the anag fodder)

Turn over leaves of Chambers (a thousand) before getting into bed (7)

[M POS] in COT

Paul @20 🤣

(I actually was trying to create a clue using non compos mentis.)

Shortly to make time for helping with the garden (7)

Toll chant softly inside or you can put a lid on it (7)

Dressing in Mallorca, according to Spooner?

The Pom Coast, geddit>>

Thanks for all the entries. Many had the desirable qualities of soundness and an apt surface. I liked darla's duo @18 and 19, mattrom's choice of evening reading @22, buddy @3 (if only expenses instead of expense could have been worked into it!). This brings me to my top 3:
Bronze: tyke51 @6
Starts to convert organic matter after soil improver (7)

Silver: jono @17 making a rare application to join the Bad Boys' Club:
Poms frolicking in bed? It might encourage growth of sticky willy! (7)

Gold: mattrom @8 reminding us of that useful Scrabble two-letter word ST as an alternative to SH. The 'compo' slang was new to me but absolutely sound.
Make a pile quietly on payment for injuries (7)

Congratulations, mattrom. Here is your instructional prize. I am not much of a gardener and my attempt at a heap turned out far too slimy.

https://youtu.be/9zvFresyPmA

Thanks paulH and congrats mattrom

Both COMPO and ST escaped me! Are they Australian?

Well done Mattrom - appreciate the bronze PaulH! It takes 2 years for my garden compost to mature!

Congrats Mattrom and thanks Paul, good fun. In researching suitably lewd plant names I also came across “shaggy soldier”!