Tips on Composting
Before you bag up your leaves and send them away, you may want to consider recycling them for your garden.
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Before you bag up your leaves and send them away, you may want to consider recycling them for your garden.
I’ve found a place out behind my home where someone has dumped the straw, hay, goat manure mixture cleaned from stalls.It’s already broke down considerably and looks like it’s half way to being compost. Is this good to add to my compost pile and if so in what ratio.
QUAIL72
October 8, 2011 at 10:25 am
@Moncantha Then throw in some wood ashes – the ‘lye’ in it will take care of that problem but NOT CHARCOAL ASHES! They contain compounds you don’t want in the garden. Wood ashes will raise the pH. We don’t have to worry about that in central Texas; the soil has an extremely high pH here.
bjusticeforever
October 8, 2011 at 11:13 am
yeah and try mixing the leaves with hay…you need a balance of green materials and brown…. also make sure u turn the compost every week so the materials dont begin to rot.
hailstrm4
October 8, 2011 at 11:38 am
I find grass makes the compost too acidic.
Moncantha
October 8, 2011 at 12:08 pm
I find that two methods work for neutralizing diseases – bokashi and worms.
takadi
October 8, 2011 at 1:08 pm
dude your awesome….
I never knew what disiesed plants were…
montanahenchmen
October 8, 2011 at 1:24 pm
But what if the leaves are poison? like potsiana leaves or nym tree leaves??
Illchangeitlater
October 8, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Did you only use leaves? If the leaves had a disease, or if they didn’t compost all the way, this could be part of the issue. Additionally, the compost bin needs to include more than just leaves. It should contain a good amount of raw plant scraps from your kitchen, grass clippings as long as you don’t spray, other carbon like wood sawdust or chips. This balance of nitrogen fixing items, carbon items and different ph’s will create a better compost. Leaves may be too acid for tomatoes alone.
lighteningblossom
October 8, 2011 at 2:35 pm
actually the seeds would be cooked in the compost pile
mreisma
October 8, 2011 at 3:24 pm
I tried this one year with leaves in my garden. All the tomato plants got diseased yellow leaves with patches of brown. someone told me that the leaves caused fungus to grow on my plants. What did I do wrong. I stacked leaves in wire cages.
sharonclyon
October 8, 2011 at 4:06 pm