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An Abundance of Usage For Autumn Leaves

Another Great Hack For Leading An Eco-Friendly Sustainable Lifestyle

Have you ever taken a look at the ground when walking through your favorite forest, backwoods trail, or meadow? You’ll probably have noticed that the soil is a deep, rich dark brown color with sweet earthy notes wafting up to your nostrils. This is nature’s compost that is made from all the naturally occurring forest detritus, which includes an abundance of fallen leaves. With this thought in mind, you might look at the dusting of tree leaves across your yard in a different light. There is a literal gardener’s gold mine at your fingertips. To put it simply, those fall leaves have great value. If mother nature makes her nutrient-dense forest soil this way, let’s follow her example and put these wonderful free resources of autumn leaves to good use.

The Incredible Benefits of Fall Leaves

As you most likely do not spray the trees in your yard or surrounding property with pesticides, right off the bat you now have access to 100% organic composting and gardening matter. Once you learn about the many advantages of dead leaves, that raking job will no longer look like tedious yard work. Fallen leaf benefits are:

TIP: Want leaves but don’t have access to any? Check with your local community gardens which usually encourage residents to bring their bags of leaves to add to compost piles. 

What To Do With Dead Leaves

Most of the tips are all focused on feeding the soil. Because our country’s farmlands have been stripped of so many nutrients, much of the produce we buy is no longer as full of vitamins and minerals as it used to be. Thus the incentive to grow your food is stronger than ever. And by using the free resources you already have, in a very short period of time and with little monetary investment, you could be filling your table week after week with homegrown goodness. So, no more plastic garbage bags of leaves tossed into the millions of trash heaps across our country. It’s time to turn over a new leaf and get started making soil ready to feed yourself, your family, your friends, or your local community! 

Compost

With your produce scraps and some autumn leaves you are on your way to making delicious home compost. It is truly satisfying to witness what was once thought of as a garage turn into the foundation for a food-hardy garden. 

Mulch For Flowers & Veggies

Leaf litter doesn’t need to be composted to be absorbed and to be a beneficial ingredient to your flower beds and vegetable gardens.

TIP: Crush leaves with a lawn mover to make a finer mixture so they won’t blow off garden beds. Or you can water the plants over the cold periods and the leaves will decay.

Mulch For Lawns

If you simply mow over all the fallen leaves on your lawn, you’ll actually be creating a good source of food for your lawn. Give it try, you’ll be happily surprised!

Root Vegetable Storage

Feed Wildlife

Our earth’s pollinators love a good cozy hangout for winter and piles of dead leaves make ideal housing for these critters.

Fall Decorations

The ruby red, fiery oranges, saucy yellows, juicy violets, and earthy browns are all the kaleidoscope of colors your autumn leaves fill. Catch some of these gorgeous gems when at their color peaks and perverse them for home decorating projects during the autumn season.

Summary

Hopefully, you are looking at those piles of autumn leaves in a different light now. Who knew they were such a rich resource of nutrients for us, our soil, our flowers, and our gardens? By using them for composting, soil-enriching, and other nature-enhancing projects, not only are we keeping free quality material out of landfills but we’re also taking part in a sustainable process that helps our entire ecosystem.

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