To improve the quality of the soil and improve its fertility is necessary at the end of gardening season to gather fallen leaves and put them in storage. As a result, the following spring you get a highly nutritious mixture, you need to insert into the ground.
Humus of foliage is an excellent means for improving characteristics of the ground. On his cooking you will not spend a lot of time and effort, you just need to dial the leaves. In addition, it is a significant savings of funds.
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So what is useful humus of dead leaves
The fallen leaves almost no useful elements, so they can not be directly used for soil saturation. Leave them to rot right on the site is also not the best solution because they could serve as a hotbed of breeding of pathogens or insect pests. That is why better to use them to form a useful complementary foods that can be consumed in a variety of ways:
- moisture-laden land — when applied to the soil humus water is delayed for a longer period, it is important for the root systems of plants, in consequence, plants better tolerate dry periods;
- attract earthworms - is an indispensable tool for cultivation of gardens contribute to loosening the soil, improve air saturation of the earth;
- soil acidity increases, which is very important for a better life activity of fruit-bearing trees, and this property It can be used in relation to some home potted plants such as rhododendrons, ferns, and camellia other;
- Deciduous humus can serve also as a mulch. This lure will appreciate almost all the vegetables growing in your stead.
What better use of leaves
The most suitable humus obtained from deciduous trees, especially fruit-bearing, growing on your same site. You can float and a needle with conifers, but they are processed for much longer, and before laying in the ground they need to grind.
On the lawns the easiest way to collect leaves with the help of a rake, or the usual fan on flat areas of land, porch or gazebo is better to use a broom or a special vacuum cleaner. On the forest floor is good to use a lawnmower, only pre-adjust her blade on the ultimate height. Mower and vacuum it's best suited for the collection of leaves, because the litter that enters the device crushed and collected in special tanks, where they can easily pour the place where they will be rot.
Now look at the leaves of tree species which can be used, the rate at which they decompose and which substances contain:
- litter with birch, elm, cherry, ash, beech, poplar, willow and oak can lay frayed decomposition occurs in short periods, the biomass will be filled with nitrogen and calcium;
- litter of leaves from the maple, berry bushes, hawthorn or chestnut it is necessary to grind, because the expansion last long, nitrogen and calcium content is very small.
In what capacity is better to lay mulch
All the leaves that you have collected and ground, if necessary, you need to put into the tank and compressed. Capacity to lay the future of humus can be:
- box, which can be done independently of approximately 1 * 1 m, carefully opened, it can obtyanut metal mesh on the sides;
- conventional garbage bags 120 l;
- or purchase intended for that purpose bags for humus.
If you bookmark in bags, it is necessary to ensure a flow of air, therefore, do no more than 5 holes in polyethylene and generously pour all the water to the leaves remain wet all the time.
When you can use humus
The resulting framework can be applied to the soil after 6-24 months. cooking speed depends on how close you are and what kind of compressed litter leaves laid. Young substrate becomes uniform structure of dark colors, which look through the veins of leaves, small twigs and other waste is transformed.
Nutrient weight should be fed into the ground before-and-garden season, or in flower pots, are also added to the perennials. With it produce mulching, poured into wells or admixed as one of the ingredients in the compost. Use mulch and germinate seeds are used, mixed with sand and soil for transplanting potted flowers.
In a period of one and a half to 3 years are processed the needles of coniferous trees, humus soil substrate becomes. This mixture is suitable for ground mulch for plants that need high acidity, these include: azaleas, heather, Pieris, rhododendron, hydrangea and other.
For what purposes can still be used
Fallen leaves will be useful for other purposes:
- it can be used to prevent the growth of weeds in spring, and to prevent the top layer of the earth blur. To do this, you must rake all the leaves do not need an unused plot of land;
- milled litter can be added to the vegetable tops and other wastes for compost manufacture;
- arrange the house for hedgehogs, they love to live in piles of leaves. Move all of the limits of your land and leave it, the settlers themselves to come back, especially if your garden near the forest.
At their summer cottage, you can find a use for even the fallen and seemingly useless leaves. Applying them to their destination, you will improve the properties of their land that will be conducive to future crops.
And you make compost from fallen leaves?- otpishites their secrets in the comments!
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