🍂Leaf Mulch Tip🍂
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2020
- Kristin shares her tip for using fallen leaves for mulch in her garden beds.
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We’ve been doing this for years, it has improved our soil so much.
I mow and bag leaves, pine straw as I am today. I have a heavy load of leaves/straw every year. I stack the shredded stuff probably up to a foot thick. I rarely get a winter weed breaking through with this heavy coat. Spring planting I rake off that that hasn't rotted, till, plant and re-mulch with that that has not rotted leaving an opening for planted seeds to sprout. Transplants I mulch close. It's been working for 40 years.
Just look at the woods/forest in your neighborhood ever wonder how those trees grew to over 100 feet without man-made fertilizers?
Eastern NC
Thanks for your tips! Sounds like you have a great method.
My dad took leaves from the whole neighborhood for many years along with tons of manure. He would spread them across the entire garden and mow them into a fine as powder as possible then till them in. We have a light sand, light brown color ground around here and my dad has been gone for over 20 years. The soil in the garden is still dark almost black soil and holds moisture very well. (Wet years too well in places) I add to it myself but not like he did.
That is great! Doing it for so long does change the composition of the soil.
thanks Kristin hope to do this for our flower garden...
Thanks for watching!
Thanks will try next time just before winter in UK
Great! Thanks for watching
Hi Kristin, how do the leaves not blow away? I have been trying this, even trying to keep them in place with pidgon netting, but the wind stills blows them to one corner or the netting, leaving much of the ground exposed..
Thanks for the tips! It is now winter, and in November I mulched my garden exactly as you've shown with chopped leaves. I actually spread a couple inches of homemade compost first, then the layer of leaves. This is the first time I've done this and I'm not sure what to do in spring in the areas where I will plant seeds like beets, carrots, peas etc. I'm in zone 7 so my garden will freeze and I don't think the layer of leaves will be broken down yet in spring, so do I scrape it off in order to plant seeds?
They should be decomposed enough that it shouldn't be a problem when planting comes.You could rake it together with the compost before planting, or if you still have a layer, just pull back the leaves to form your rows. What a great start for your garden!
Maybe a dumb question, but how do you chop up the leaves? (a beginning gardener!) Thank you. I'm loving your channel! Linda
We mow them. If you have a bag on your mower, it makes it easy to catch the mowed, chopped leaves
Good advice. Can we do it with dried green leaves as I have lots of green leaves after tree trimming.
Yes, definitely
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Thanks for watching and commenting.
Composted woodchips are great in building soil, the greatest misteke in your life to remove it. You should add more woodchips on top each year .
Good idea!
How do you chop up the leaves ? Leaf munchers are expensive . Is there a cheap way
Use your lawn mower. Thanks for watching.
shredded leaves make a great mulch.... but question... why would rake up wood mulch after a season and send it to the compost pile? it's purpose is to decompose in place. If more is needed, you'd just add on top of the older mulch.
Kristin didn't purposely rack up the wood mulch, but she would also lose some after pruning and cleaning out her beds. If she loses some chopped leaves, no big deal. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Can you use dead leaves without chopping them up?
Yes but make sure it drains and just doesn't create a mat.
That's what I do. I don't chop them.
It is much better to chop them up with your mower. You don’t want wet clumps. The more finely ground, the deeper you can place them.
@@Brockthedog315 thank you!
Use the chickens for turning leaf mulch...
compost in place, great, mulch HORRIBLE. you do want whole leaves insulating that moisture in. Think its bad? well, that's exactly how the forest floor does it in nature.