Yes, leaves and wood chips are game changers for amending garden soil!! I’ve been really happy with the results — no need for peat. Plus they’re free
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requires planning on the timing.
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Makes sense
aug 31, 2025, 8:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Basically a person has to grind up the leaves, pile the grinds and allow them to compose until the late Summer to work them into the soil. We have a very long growing season, heat loving pants during the Summer and cool weather loving plants during the Fall and Winter. So working leaves into soil
aug 31, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, I have found chipped wood to be great. That is easy to find due to lots of limb fall in Florida. I am new to using ground up leaves, my region of the country has flaky leaf-fall, leaves don’t fall here until almost Spring - making planning essential for anyone planning to use them in soil.
aug 31, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah, interesting. In eastern WA state, fallen leaves are so abundant in the fall that people burn them just to get them out of the way. Tragic because it makes the skies smoky, and puts carbon in the air when we could put it in the soil. I go around and ask people if I can take their bagged leaves 😂
aug 31, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
There were companies that sold composed leaves, but they required local pickup, not an option for a person who lives in Florida and was looking for northern fallen leaves.
aug 31, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Sell whatever weight of packed ground leaves that you can get into the bag. Burlap bags are really sustainable and pretty inexpensive. Paper bags are cheaper but not as sustainable.
aug 31, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
You should set up a mail order business for ground up leaves. I am serious. Because Florida has such quirky leaf-fall, I looked at buying leaves from northern climates, nothing. Pack ground up leaves into a 50 Lb bag and sell them online as soil amendment. Of course the leaves won’t weigh 50 Lbs
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