Leaf mulch is abundant in fall. In this episode we will talk about how we make it, and 5 amazing benefits of it on your plants and in your garden.
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Don’t i remember you setting up your grow lights? What is the electrician doing?
mulching with unshredded leaves is completely fine, they will not go anaerobic unless you're stepping on them or something like that.
1. A veggie without sun is not as nutritional as those grown in the sun
2. Is a lawn mower that is not electric or gas. It is completely organic this way
3. Happy gardening
Good video, but nature doesnt grind up the leaves so im going to try layi g down about a foot deep of leaves in my 12×50
What if you get some weeds in there will it be ok still..
Great benifit tip
I want to save my raked leaves to start composting. However we live in the city and I know that pesticides have been used around the property. Will my leaves be contaminated after they have fallen on the same property? I'm a little worried about using those leaves. Should I be?
Can i mulch my veg patch with leaf mulch in spring?
Can this be done and used in the spring? Or is this only done in fall?
Great video!
I have been mulching just dry shredded oak leaves for 4 years. It makes a great bedding for vermiculture. Just let it mold for about 6 weeks (moist) then add red composting worms. This will break it down in less than a year and convert to about 30% worm castings in that time. Easy to do. No turning. I do mine in 40 gallon black plastic planting pots. Works out very well. Shredding the leaves reduces them by about 80% as you note in your video.
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Another great video dear. I learned lots. I don’t have the equip,nets so used garden scissors and just bunched up leaves twigs and cut through them and then mulch them. Also can put layer of ash on top of them for extra layer of nutrition for winter. I hope that is ok? Thanks again appreciate your grt videos.
Im assuming it doesn't get too windy where you are based.
good info thanks
Food for thought. Consider the forest. Nobody uses a mower. Wrap your brain around that one.
And in the forest, mulch can go up to 2 feet next to the tree tunks
And you have grass that gets mixed in, that's the vitamin. Good advice. But I don't have grass, just weeds. And I don't trust other people's grass clippings because many people use weed control products which isn't safe while growing food to eat. Any other suggestions to supply nitrogen at the same time as leaves?
Genius idea of putting leaves in a garbage can and using weed whacker to break them up! Ill be doing this today thanks Luke!
Thanks Luke. Certainly good timing as we have a lot of leaves falling. I just spent the last 7 weeks building my 15 raised beds and filling them with compost. From conception to completion was a bit more than I imagined but they are done and I am well pleased with them. I amended them as your video instructed a couple of weeks ago with kelp, Worm castings, and Uric acid. I planted your garlic in one of my beds and added Trifecta as well to that bed. The garlic is sprouting now. Would it be good to add leaves as mulch to this bed? How about all the beds even though they have no plants until next year? Thanks for all you do Luke.
So helpful, thanks, Luke!!
Leaf mulch works great in my garden as well. Anybody have any experience with pine straw as mulch? You can read where it supposedly increases the acidity of your garden but does it really effect it enough to matter?
When filling garden beds, are using whole leaves ok to use as organic material to fill the bottom of the bed?
Awesome. I'll be doing this tomorrow.
Love this guy. A nice young gentleman
Leaves your comments below
Never thought to weed eat my leaves tbh lol. But I always use my tiller to flip/grind compost
I must interject a corrective thought here. "Too much moisture" is NOT a problem in 9B Arizona and Florida. In these places, we need AS MUCH MOISTURE as we can get. It averages so many days between rains in Orlando. The rumor about the rains happening every day at 5 – 6 is simply not true. When they do come in July – August, it's never enough to be a solid rain. The leaves are broken and aerated during a small till cycle, without going to deep and harming the worms. The only thing I would recommend for leaf mulching in 9B is, "use way more than you think". I've laid out tons of leaves only to have them compost down to 2" of soil.
I have a lawn vac, that mulches them.
I don't use my mower to mulch leaves because it dulls, & wears the blades out quickly. also hard on the whole machine in general.
I can't believe how much money I save on soil just simply using all the natural compost I've unknowingly created for the last few years.. All the leaves and grass clippings I've naturally hoarded have now turned into beautiful garden soil its unbelievable to me that I didn't even know I didn't have to buy garden soil when its plentiful right in my yard…
Is it OK to simply rototil the leaves into my garden in the fall? Or is it really better to turn the leaves into compost in a compost bin throughout the fall Winter and early Spring? I really like the idea of burying the leaves directly into my garden this fall to save time and energy and it seems like it might actually be better.