cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16130943
My mom was complaining that the city has limits on how many leaves that they’ll pick up, and she’s got bags and bags of leaves stuffed into black garbage bags. This seems like a problem that should have some kind of backyard solution.
I’ve done a cursory search, and see that leaves are very compostable. They can also apparently be turned into “mold”, though I don’t fully understand what this means.
But I also see that there is a lot of variety in compost bins, and they’re quite expensive. So I’m wondering: what’s the best strategy for making leaves go away? She’s not specifically interested in the product of the leaves, she just wants to find somewhere to put them after she rakes them up. Any ideas?
I’ll second putting them thru a chipper shredder. The down side, you may kill some beneficial insects. So mulch with as much as you can. The upside is you will markedly speed up the process Of returning to soil. Shred the rest. One year I had a huge amount of leaves so I shredded some of them. Then forked and top dressed a bed with 6” finished compost, and 12” of shredded leaves. By Spring it was almost all returned to soil.