Autumn is the Time for Compost
Compost is the very best food you can give to the plants in your garden
Compost is the very best food you can give to the plants in your garden. However, making really great compost requires the right mix of ingredients. We demonstrate how to create that perfect recipe from the ingredients you have at home. You’ll see the compost mix being created, find out what materials to avoid, trace how the compost heap progresses as it ‘cooks’ and discover how to fix common problems.
Compost Masterclass: The Easy Way to Make Compost
How to compost | Grow at Home | Royal Horticultural Society
How to Make Leafmould - Gardener's Gold
There’s something akin to alchemy in the making of leafmould – the idea that out of nature’s discards comes the most deliciously crumbly gardener’s gold. For those of you unfamiliar with leafmould it’s simply wondrous stuff. Earthy, dark brown and smelling like a woodland floor in spring, it’s what you get when leaves rot down over time. Leafmould can be used as a mulch, soil conditioner, potting mix or seed compost. It’s a benign fellow, low enough in nutrients so as not to scald tender seedlings but with just the right qualities to dramatically improve soil structure and boost its water retention.
If there’s one thing that isn’t in short supply in autumn, it’s fallen leaves! American gardeners have even named a season after this annual bounty. So it’s rakes, scoops and wheelbarrows at the ready as we prepare to collect some of this plenty and transform it into something special.
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https://www.growveg.co.uk/guides/how-to-make-leafmould-gardeners-gold/
Some ideas for compost bins
Compost Tumbler
Compost Bins made of Pallets
Happy Composting 🍂
We had a beautiful mulberry tree in our backyard until recently we had to remove it because it was diseased. 😞 we have pathways that run through our backyard so the tree was isolated in its own large area with the paths making a border. The lawn is on the other side of it. So in January when the leaves would finally fall we would just leave them around the tree. We would just rake the paths. Leave them under the tree and on the lawn. By spring time the leaves turned into wonderful leaf gold. 🍁 🍂 🍃 made the best fertilizer for the lawn and also for the morning glory which are used to grow around the tree for groundcover. I’d also put it in a wheelbarrow and feed all my other plants. I’m not sure if that was the right thing to do but that’s what I used to do and my garden benefited greatly from the added nutrition. Thank you for so much detail!
I don't know about this.
We have had compost piles for all my life. No one keeps track of how it is doing other than to remember to throws some egg shells in it. It's been successfully kicking butt and filling fields with no real thought put into it.
I think we tend to make things complicated. In reality we know a crap ton more instinctually and from just living then we can ever imagine. Doing is growing. It's that simple.