Bunch of leaves littered across the yard or in the back porch is a common sight during the autumn. The arrival of the shedding season bears rotted leaves more on the ground than in those tree branches. While many homeowners choose to shed those piles onto bags that are on their way to landfills, they are unaware of the rich amount of gold they are disposing of unknowingly. The fallen bunch that you see gathered around your lawn and garden can be used as a rich source of fertilizer.
The fertilizer you don’t know about
You may not value those foliage touching the ground but it still has its utility to offer. All those fertilizers enhancing the fertility of soil can be extracted at a great deal from the leaves that have fallen naturally. Researches that were based on the healthy growth of plants has come upon the fact that leaves have always contained a great number of fertilizers.
Foliage fertilizer in its formation
While you may call it a common sense, the scientific facts confirm the theory. Leaves that fall off among the woods and fields let itself get compressed during the winter with snow falling over them. As a result, they began to get iced in the course of the season and starts getting decomposed in the subsequent spring. Although it’s not mean to criticize the homeowners and gardeners as the fallen leaves do mess up the lawn takes up a lot of space in the garden.
The decompressed leaves are often known to smother small herbs while contaminates your garden with dirt. You may feel the urge of disposing of them as quickly as possible but before you do it think about the vast amount of fertilizer you will be missing out on. Before shrugging them onto the pickup trucks you can try making the productive requirement that will let you tend your garden.
Ways of using foliage as a fertilizer
To acquire the necessary wealth fertilizer for managing your garden there are two possible ways.
To achieve a successful outcome you need to moisture your leaf collection every two weeks in case it doesn’t rain. The presence of moisture will let this foliage to break down with the aid of earthworms.
The leaves will be broken down into leave moulds at a certain proportion during the end of summer.
Conclusion
You need to empty the bin before the next batch of leaves falls and spread the dark partly composted bunch of leave moulds around trees and gardens.
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