Change the fallen leaves into a gardener’s gold
Molley is necessary for soil health. It works as a barrier against water loss and heat, reduces weeds and improves soil structure. When you find the right method of your garden or farm, mulching is an uncomplicated way to raise soil health.
The leaf form, often called garden gold, is a highly nutritious soil correction, which can be used as a mulch to assist keep moisture and suppress weeds. The creation is not only plain, but also does not cost for you.
Read more to get a foundation using leaves and leaf form as litter.
Below is a fragment Live soil textbook By Jesse Frost. Has been adapted to the network.
Unless otherwise stated, all photos of Copyright © 2021 by Jesse Frost.
Learning to work with nature
If our goal as breeders is to imitate nature, we cannot ignore the close ubiquity of litter in natural ecosystems. These are the leaves on the forest floor or shoot on the prairies. And these litter materials are not there by accident. Nature has a lot of motivation to store soils and, as you will see, just like breeders.
In forests, pastures and gardens, litter:
- Lend a hand stop moisture, protecting the soil from wind and sunlight
- Spread this moisture more evenly in the soil
- Provide the habitat for favorable organisms, both macro and micro – especially fungi
- Act like feed for some microorganisms called saprofits, which digest these carbon materials and slowly release the nutrients of litter in the form that can absorb plant roots
- The soil armor before hitting rain drops or traces, helping to prevent compaction
- Limit the germination of unwanted seeds
On our farm, the soil covering with litter brought greater positive effects in our gardens than almost any other actions we have taken.
Fortunately, or unfortunately there was no shortage of inexpensive rejected litter material in our society. The leaves are granted from the yards every fall. Food waste from cities is reversed from the landfill and turned into compost. In areas growing grains, straw is cut and begged after the grain harvest. Tree Trimmers arrows cut along the power line to the right and turn them into wooden chips. In fact, almost every area generates mass mulch materials that can be obtained by affordability for operate in garden beds.
Regardless of where you live, a petite hunt should lead to at least one appropriate form of ecological cover material that your gardens will appreciate, although you will probably find a few.
Leaves and form of leaves
An vital thing that you need to know about leaves and the form of leaves is that if they are available to you, you should probably operate them as mulch (or at least a compost component).
The leaves are full of nutrients. When they reach the soil, mushrooms that live a lot on the leaves and in an impressive range of enzymes to break the wood materials, which consist of leaves, releasing nutrients in the form available in the plant. In this way, adding leaves is a great way to feed both plants and soil life without the potential to add weed seeds from sources such as hay.
If the leaf supply is fresh, it is usually best to destroy them before adding to the garden. When the leaves are applied to the garden bed without their prior destruction, they tend to “matt” against soil, which may limit water penetration and air movement, and hinder the appearance of juvenile plants. I witnessed this first -hand with garlic: a fairly lean layer of undisturbed leaves restricted some garlic shoots. If the destroyer is not available, the mower can do this work.
Just dress the beds with leaves. Let them arid slightly and mowers eat with a mower (sometimes called mower) to make them in place.
Leaf form are fold -out leaves; Looks more or less like any other
compost.
In terms of water and air penetration, leaf form It is much easier on the soil than raw leaves and luxurious in mushroom life. Full of nutrients and minerals, but lower in phosphorus than composted manure, leaf mold can create an excellent surface litter.
It is also very useful as an organic matter builder in the early stages of the design of the garden, when it is transformed into soil with compost and other corrections.