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how to use fall leaves to revive your soil 🍂
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With all the rain and wind we've had the past few days, the deciduous trees in our yard finally dropped the last of their leaves. Before this, we actually had a pretty mild season so we got to enjoy some beautiful fall color. 🍁 I'll let those leaves dry out over the next week before cleaning up a bit, and while I do leave a fair amount right where they are to promote a healthy yard, I collect the excess to use elsewhere in the garden. You might remember that I shared a Prime Day deal last month for this electric leaf mulcher. I've used it the last several years to turn bagfuls of leaves into nutritious mulch and leaf mold, and my soil has never been better. You don't always have to shred leaves before using them though. Fall leaves are beneficial in several ways, and you can use this free resource to improve your soil over winter (and into next year). Here's how I use fall leaves in my garden to build healthy soil. (You'll laugh at the photo I shared in that post when I asked a complete stranger to deliver a whole trailer load of leaves to my yard after he raked them all up. And he did! Otherwise, he was just going to take them to the landfill.) Thank you SO MUCH for all the kind emails this past week about my new book! The Route 66 Cookbook was released on October 28 and you can read more about it here. This was the hardest book for me to develop (in the 12 years I've been writing books) and it really upped my game. I'm so proud of how it turned out! P.S. Don't bag up those leaves for the landfill. Here's how you can use fall leaves to improve your soil. P.P.S. What do you do with your plants at the end of the season? Let me show you why fall is the best time to work on your soil. Get a jump start on proper soil-building and learn my "lazy techniques" to create healthy, active, nutrient-rich soil by spring—with much less work than doing it all in spring! Join Lazy Gardening Academy. |
Garden Betty
For people who want to grow more food with less work. 🌱 This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribers—here's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."