An Autumn leaf pile
Its the autumn annual leaf raking season again, and rather than burning your collected leaves there are many stories currently being published on the seasonal subject of how to compost leaves after the annual autumn leaf raking sessions all good gardeners will now be engaged upon. Not many years ago the vast majority of gardeners would simply wait for a dryish day and set light to their collection of leaves, but nowadays we know that there is a great deal more benefit to the soil and your future garden displays of healthy green and blossoms from composting the leaves from the annual autumn raking. We won’t draw the fire of the example web pages that are linked below. Go, take a look if you are interested in what these green gardening pundits have been saying on the topic of how to compost leaves.
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Recycle or compost leaves after annual autumn raking BlueRidgeNow.com The reason there’s a fee associated with yard waste is that twice a year we grind that waste and give it to a local Department of Environmental and Natural Resources-permitted composting facility. These composting facilities then turn the shredded yard … |
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Column: Compost leaves for great garden Daily Journal Although most towns provide pickup for leaves, most homeowners and gardeners can take advantage of leaves through composting. This story appears in the print edition of Daily Journal. Subscribers can read the entire story online by signing in here or … |
Blue RidgeNow.Com tells us what they recommend in the following quotefrom their web page:
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The Daily Jouranl thinks similarly in this quote from their article:
“By mid-November, most of the trees have lost their leaves with the exception of some oak species. If you have not dealt with your leaves up to this point, now is the time to take action.
Although most towns provide pickup for leaves, most homeowners and gardeners can take advantage of leaves through composting.”
So there you are. It’s official go compost your leaves. Nobody wants the cost to your local waste authority of sending them all those leaves, and just about everyone will complain if you burn your leaves in a built-up area, due to the smoke you will produce across the neighborhood.
Leaves are not as high in nutrients as the summer growth, due to the manner in which trees avoid waste and re-absorb and remove many of the nutrients from their leaves before they die, but they will still build soil quality from the woody matter, and composting then works best if mixed with grass cuttings and annual planting which ceased flowering and has been removed from flower borders.
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