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shredded tree leaves
it is that time of year again..... and since i live at the end of a
cul-de-sac....i get covered with everyone's leaves..... since i like to veggie garden.... what is the best way to store the shredded tree leaves that i get from my yard.... the garden is too wet to dig them in.... can i rototil them in next spring ?? should i be adding anything to them (ie: fertilizer) or just let them winter over ?? |
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I put mine in big plastic bags and leting them rot all winter. In spring i
will dump them on my garden and till them in. "WARRENRN1" wrote in message ... it is that time of year again..... and since i live at the end of a cul-de-sac....i get covered with everyone's leaves..... since i like to veggie garden.... what is the best way to store the shredded tree leaves that i get from my yard.... the garden is too wet to dig them in.... can i rototil them in next spring ?? should i be adding anything to them (ie: fertilizer) or just let them winter over ?? |
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Plastic bags would work. Also, wooden pallets make nice leaf mold bins.
You'll have some great humus and and organic matter come next April. Can't beat leaf mold. JK WARRENRN1 wrote: = it is that time of year again..... and since i live at the end of a cul-de-sac....i get covered with everyone's leaves..... since i like to veggie garden.... what is the best way to store the sh= redded tree leaves that i get from my yard.... the garden is too wet to dig t= hem in.... can i rototil them in next spring ?? should i be adding anythi= ng to them (ie: fertilizer) or just let them winter over ?? -- = Celestial Habitats by J. Kolenovsky 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
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shredded tree leaves
"WARRENRN1" wrote in message ... it is that time of year again..... and since i live at the end of a cul-de-sac....i get covered with everyone's leaves..... since i like to veggie garden.... what is the best way to store the shredded tree leaves that i get from my yard.... the garden is too wet to dig them in.... can i rototil them in next spring ?? should i be adding anything to them (ie: fertilizer) or just let them winter over ?? You can simply gather them into a pile and leave them all winter. If you want to contain them, a simple way is to get a length of cheap wire fence material and make a cylinder by tying the ends together. Put the leaves in the wire bin. Next year you can rototil them into the garden. They may need more time than the winter to decompose. I generally alternate piles, tilling in the older pile. |
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I agree shredding is the key. I have a bag of wet unshredded leaves and that havent even started to changed colour.
However my other bag which I shreded with garden shear (unfortunatly dont have a shredder) and wetted has already started to turn into a brown/blackish color after only 3 weeks. |
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:37:52 GMT, dommy
wrote: However my other bag which I shreded with garden shear (unfortunatly dont have a shredder) and wetted has already started to turn into a brown/blackish color after only 3 weeks. I run over them with the lawn mower to shred them. |
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Ah....leaves slowly starting to fall. Time get out the 2 chipper
shredders, crank them up, don respirator mask and grind up 100 sacks of leaves for mo' leaf mold. J. Kolenovsky WARRENRN1 wrote: = it is that time of year again..... and since i live at the end of a cul-de-sac....i get covered with everyone's leaves..... since i like to veggie garden.... what is the best way to store the sh= redded tree leaves that i get from my yard.... the garden is too wet to dig t= hem in.... can i rototil them in next spring ?? should i be adding anythi= ng to them (ie: fertilizer) or just let them winter over ?? -- = Celestial Habitats by J. Kolenovsky 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - business =F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal |
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There's a chipper shredder in my shed but I can't handle it, so I'm running the
mower which shreds nicely. I empty the bag around every plant I have for mulch. There's a little grass getting mowed and green with the brown is good. When everything is mulched, I will dump into a big wire bin where I contribute my kitchen garbage. Someday I'm going to have some real compost bins, but for now I just have these big wire circles. I cut a little door at the bottom and shovel good stuff out when I need it. Even if it isn't nice crumbly compost yet it will do. Marilyn Marilyn |
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I left mine in the beds last fall, and top dressed with straw this spring...
both have almost broken down into the soil just in time to start all over again. Colleen Zone 5 Connecticut |
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Paul Below wrote in message . ..
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:37:52 GMT, dommy wrote: However my other bag which I shreded with garden shear (unfortunatly dont have a shredder) and wetted has already started to turn into a brown/blackish color after only 3 weeks. I run over them with the lawn mower to shred them. that's how we do ours and leave some on the yard, especially if there are grass seeds in them, then the next bunch without the seed, we put on the garden. last fall i did fill one large black plastic bag with the shreded leaves and some soil and wet it down some as i filled it with the shredded leaves and green trimmings from the garden and tied it closed and once a week about i turned it over a few times to areate it and this summer i had some prety good looking soil! i had an area that i did not plan on planting for a while and poured it on there to finish decaying. looking good. lee h |
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