Hooray For Leaves

Leaves offer some good fun and benefits to everyone. First and foremost, the kids love when mom and dad rake them into huge piles and the kids get to jump in joy, this has always a great time of year for my sister and I. It offered fun and enjoyment but then we had to re-rake them so it taught us the importance between work and fun as well.

Now we get to the gardening section of this post. Leaves provide a great number of nutrients when they begin to break down. They are a great way to begin a compost pile since there is always and abundance of leaves everywhere you look. You can take a few loads and dump them into your compost pile, or take my method which works great for me.

I rake all my leaves from the front and back yard into my freshly tilled garden. When they are all on top of my garden, I try to spread them out evenly over the entire plot. I have a fairly good sized garden so I have room for all my leaves. If you don’t have a big garden, just use enough to cover the entire garden with an inch or two. This is the easiest part. Just leave the leaves all winter on top of your garden. They will begin to compost themselves. Also, over the winter earthworms come to the surface and eat the leaves which then turn into waste and nutrients put back into to soil. It’s a natural way of composting.

When spring comes and you can work the soil, just till the remaining leaves into your garden and keep tilling until your soil is worked enough to plant.

This is a great way to dispose of your fall time menace and put them to good use. There is nothing better than recycling and there is nothing better than free!