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Mon, Oct 11, 10 at 15:58
| our bagged 'organic' leaves as we bag them or when they are all bagged? We just don't have the setup to shred them and they are still decomposing in the surrounding banks around our yard from 3 years ago! So, I was wondering if anyone would want the ones we bag this year... I may hold onto a few but since they aren't shredded they will take forever to break down.
Thanks.
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| Really!, three years and they are still not broken down. Must be from trees like willow or oak whose leaves do not absorb moisture readily -- they are invaluable for surrounding hydrangea that require their stems to come through winter and too, they don't mat down on lawns or in gardens like others, like maple, do. Don't have a mower to run over them....or a bag on the mower to collect, dump, run over, collect, dump, run over. Its a bargain basement deal if one can add to leaf storage when a neighbor cant use them. Do you have any bushes of size where a bag of leaves can be placed to sit, say, over a winter, into spring and summer. If so, put the leaves into garbage bags, add some soil, some nitrogen fertilizer, some chewed up annuals, poke some finger holes into the bottom and sides to let the worms in, and place behind a bush to spend the next millenium. If anything, it should produce some great leaf mold; great for roses, by next summer. |
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| Thanks Goren, I'm actually going to try something similar as an experiment in an old weedy vegetable (nothing in it but weeds now) garden. I'm going to put all the bags of leaves in it and cover with a tarp since it's out in the open... think that will work without any additives? |
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| gonren is right, you should have seen some deterioration in the 100 days.Oct.12 till Dec.26. |
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