Composting with only leaves for Garden soil improvement building healthy organic garden soil. Adding this compost will be the best thing you will ever do for your organic garden soil. Leaf mold will add water holding capability to your garden. Start a compost pile today. To build soil health. Composting 101.
LINK to Minerals / Nutrients break down in FALL LEAVES: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsustainable-farming.rutgers.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F09%2FJEQ-2006-Chem-Comp-of-Leaves.pdf&event=comments&redir_token=iyFN1JJuBW1W1e4ody4CoE7eDKZ8MTUzNzI3OTY4M0AxNTM3MTkzMjgz
Am i the only one who cringed when seeing he started in the middle with the tractor?
Hi. You mentioned that you till your cover crop of clover slightly to get the bed ready for planting but only go an inch deep. Do you ever have trouble with it sprouting back afterwards? Also, do you plant the clover in fall and let it grow until mid spring or do you let the ground lay fallow for a year or more with the cover crop of clover on it?
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The mikos is in the leaf mold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!You dont need it!!!!!!!
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I bought four bags of potting soil instead of potting mix I have many containers that have turned into clay like goop due to the rain please help what can I add to make this into a fluffy mix good for container gardening
After watching lots of your videos we are excited to get started right away without having to wait a year or two for a pile of leaves to break down. Here's our question: We have several acres of untouched woodland (mostly hardwoods with a few interspersed pines in Anderson, South Carolina). A few days ago I went and cleared a small area of leaves in an area underneath hardwood trees and found beautiful dark leaf mold that was a bit moist. Could we dig up about six inches of this leaf mold and transfer it to our garden beds? If we do, should we rototill the grass before we lay the leaf mold down, or, what would would you suggest that we do in preparing the garden area before laying the leaf mold down? After we lay the leaf mold down do we cover it with something before planting?
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I live in the desert southwest where it s very dry, hot and windy. Your leaf mold compost is beautiful. I have access to leaves but how do I keep them from blowing away?
I live in Colorado (Dry) do you need moisture added? I can't keep the moisture level high as needed because of the dry climit
I got some leaves from a local place how deep do I need it And do I need to break it down like you’re doing this video
The MINERALS / NUTRIENTS… Micro and Macro in FALL LEAVES . SEE PAGE 2 of this link, THANK YOU. https://sustainable-farming.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/JEQ-2006-Chem-Comp-of-Leaves.pdf .
It is January 9th here in the NW part of Washington. Can I still plant a oover crop in my Veggie garden to enhance the Fungi
I collect leaves streetside nights before recycle truck. Just this week i got a call to come move approx 200lb of bagged broken down leaves. Idiots literally scraped it out from under their trees before they re rented a house. My luck!
Yourst 2 minutes very valuable info on cover crop/nitto fixers and mulching to protect good soil from sunburn. A keeper video for reference.
Hey Mark. Would this work with 90% or more of shredded pine needles? We have an abundance of pine needles falling every year.
p.s. We're not worried about stealing our pine trees' natural mulch, as we're planning on slowly clearing the trees over the years anyways.
Thanks!
be ware where you get your leaves some of the may have growth inhibiters in them.
Just the way Forest floor works. You could use a small amount of compost on top to inoculate the leaves
I find that heavy mulch will bring worms and fungi in on their own. There’s no harm in inoculating your soil with extra, but IMO it’s a waste of money in a home garden anyway.
I have turned dense, sticky, stinky, gray clay soil (sludge when wet, cracked and brick like when dry) into rich dark soil full of worms and fungi with newspapers, heavy mulch, and time.
Simply cover the soil with organic material, and it will come to life and be transformed naturally. I’ve turned the worst clay into rich loam and have seen it used to do the same with “sugar” sand in Florida and even turn a gravel driveway into a garden!
What type of worms do u recommend putting in?
What's this crop name? Crumsy clover seeds?
What's the benefit of planting these during winter ❄️???
I always left my backyard garden empty during winter
I know it's a very old video, but it's very likely that is not steam but instead the musty stuff from fungi that becomes airborne when fungal-dominated 'compost' piles are disturbed (e.g. when you disturb a large pile of woodchips that have been sitting a couple of weeks, that isn't steam).
Mark, I follow your wonderful videos religiously and this is my first year to make leaf compost. I’ve gathered pickuploads of leaves, shredded them by passing over the pile many times with the lawnmower, and moistened and piled into pallet bins. I’ve noticed that there are differing opinions on the amount of nutrients in leaf mold, with some saying it’s merely a soil conditioner. Question: Is it your opinion that leaf mold is sufficient in a garden bed and that other compost or fertilizer is not necessary?
How do u keep the leaves from blowing everywhere?
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Your awesome! Thank you!
Admittedly I am ignorant but I have always heard to avoid Oak leaves because its a natural herbicide . Is that just a wive's tale ?
I'm surprised u tilled. Doesn't that expose the soil's beneficial micro organisms to death? How could the leaf mold be added without disturbing the soil's living web?
Nice video and learnt a lot from it .
I have a lot of fallen teak leaves . Can decomposed teak leaves be used in garden soil to improve drainage and aeration ?