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Add Compost to Leaf Bag for Leaf Mold?
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Posted by zardthegardener GA (My Page) on Fri, Nov 6, 09 at 11:20
| So I started collecting bags of leaves to make leaf mold. Are there any benefits of adding some compost into each bag? Or am I just unnecessarily delaying the use of the compost? |
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RE: Add Compost to Leaf Bag for Leaf Mold?
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| As far as I understand it, if you add compost to the leaves, what you will create will no longer be leaf mold, but compost. Technically, leaf mold is just decomposed leaves with nothing else added. It's all good for the garden though... |
RE: Add Compost to Leaf Bag for Leaf Mold?
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| I'm less concerned about the purity of the leaf mold, but more interested in speeding up the process, while keeping it a cold process. In other words, does compost contain the micro-organisms that process leaf mold? I guess existing leaf mold does, but I don't have any leaf mold right now. |
RE: Add Compost to Leaf Bag for Leaf Mold?
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| You might speed up the leaf mold; you'd definitely slow down the compost. |
RE: Add Compost to Leaf Bag for Leaf Mold?
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You will find just leaving the leaves in a plastic bag they will rot down.
Quote "does compost contain the micro-organisms that process leaf mold?" End Quote In a word YES. If you add leaves to a compost pile they will rot down to what looks like leaf mould. Cold composting is a slow process, much faster if you get involved with Thermal Composting. |
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