Here's how you can use foliage as fertilizer

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.

• One of them involves chopping up leaves while they descend on the ground. If you already have a lawn mower then it won’t be of much trouble. The mowed leaves, when collected, can be evenly distributed on the flowerbeds or around the trees. The chopped up pieces won’t be able to suffocate your small plants due to the absence of a heavy wet layer. Even the small pieces of leaves don't blow away.

• The other way does not involve any kind of mowing and shredding the leaves fallen from ceramic planters. It mainly involves corralling them in an open bin container while on a summer camp. You might think of it as a playpen for the earthworms. An enclosed fence or even a box made of old shipping pallets will help prevent the leaf bunch from whisking away with the summer warmth.
  
  

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.