If you’ve got a garden that has a lot of deciduous trees in it you will no doubt have to collect up all those leaves in the autumn and winter. You may wonder what are you going to do with all those leaves and may even just decide to take them to your local refuse site, but actually you could save yourself some money and save the environment from a couple of car journeys and use those leaves to do something useful.
If you’ve already got a lawn sweeper then you will know how useful they really are, the powered versions contain shredders which can be very useful for what I’m about to tell you, and that this how to make leaf mould. See www.lawnsweeperinfo.com for more information about all types of leaf collectors.
First of all you need somewhere to pile up your leaves and many times it is best to do this with a home-made solution. This is easy to do and just consists of four posts simply hammered to the ground with some galvanised mesh then wrapped around them. Next you need to take your leaves and put a layer that is a couple of inches deep into this pen that you’ve created. Then spread a thin layer of soil at the top and repeat the process again. Keep going until you have used up all of your leaves. Then you need to do is to cover the top of the leaf mould pile with a black plastic bag. Then you wait.
It is best to wait at least a year, because then you’ll have something usable if you’ve got a patience then the ultimate time is to wait three years then you have some really good compost to add to your soil. There is one point worth mentioning that this you should try to avoid putting holly leaves into your leave mould pile, the reason for this is that they take much longer than other leads to break down, it’s time to issue though then this worry you.
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