How To Use Fallen Leaves In Garden And Homestead! 4 Amazing Ways To Use Them!
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- How To Use Fallen Leaves In Garden And Homestead! 4 Amazing Ways To Use Them!
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Good video, thanks. You can whip up the leaves with a electric scarifier ot works brilliantly
Always look forward to your videos. God bless you and your family
I appreciate that. Thank you and God bless.
1) layer over kitchen scraps
2) pure leaf compost
3) insulation in cage around plants
4) mulch in garden beds
Thanks for making this video! Perfect timing - leaves are really falling now.
You're welcome.
My American PawPaws!!!!!!
I have six American Paw Paws that I purchased as rooted twigs; they've grown nicely; however I've noticed wind burn on their leaves and was concerned about how they would fair over the winter until now. Thank you so very much I will cage them in leaves
Be well and be safe.
Peace
I have one PawPaw that has not fruited yet. I am looking forward to it. Glad we could help.
I get that mulching leaves isn't the most optimal use of time, yet it's the one that has a bunch of benefits for wildlife that can't be simulated by other means. There are insects and others that need the leaf litter for a winter home. Some of these are insects people easily appreciate (i.e. fireflies) and some are considered "pests" (i.e. slugs) but those are a critical food source for birds and other larger animals people love to have around. On a homestead or forested area I can understand that there's enough "wild" space around that it's not as much of an effect but for those living in urban and suburban environments it can be have much broader benefits.
I was wondering if shredding the leaves up a bit would help in the process.. cool video
It would help in certain instances.
Was those green leave vines from sweet potatoes? If it is you can eat them like spinach. Satay with garlic , taste good.
Yes. We eat them all the time. They are great.
other then black walnut are there any other tree species you need to avoid using leaves for your garden? Does the Ph of leaves vary by species? for example I know my blueberry bushes love pine needles because they are more acidic are there others? Thank you
There is a lot of info out there. Some say oak leaves are too acidic but that is when they are green. The ph neutralizes when they dry up and die.
thank you
@@CountryLivingExperience
Not all leaves are gold. Some are quite bad for your soil. Anything in the walnut family is pretty bad.
Also, when using leaves, mow over them at least once or twice to chop them up.
I will till some in the soil in the fall and trash compost the rest till mid spring.
You can also till in straw (but stay away from hay).
Maple leaves are THE best leaves to use. They are the gold standard.
Trees and dandelions are dynamic accumulators.
So is Comfrey.
Those remineralize your soil and add tilth.
Maple leaves are the best? That is very interesting. Is it because the leaves possess the most nutrients? What type of tree would you rate 2nd best for their leaves. On my dream homestead of the future I want to put lots of thought into what trees to plant. Can oak leaves be bad like walnut varieties?
@@ascendant95 The leaves of one large shade tree can be worth as much as $50 of plant food & humus. Pound for pound, the leaves of most trees contain twice as many minerals as manure. I will still use manure though (Black Kow is the only one I will use).
Leaves from hardwood trees take the longest with some tree leaves taking YEARS and YEARS to break down. You asked for 2nd best leaves but that would depend on your area's trees.
Oak is in a similar family like Walnut - leaves do contain Juglone but not as much as black walnut. Almost all nut tree leaves take longer to break down.
Soft maple leaves are the gold standard as they break down the fastest (and among the favorite food for earthworms next to used coffee grounds).
Compost guide site can explain composting leaves pretty easily.
Be aware that too much nitrogen and/or not enough oxygen in the composting process is bad. You can tell by the ammonia smell it gives off. Ammonia also kills many of the fungus and microbes needed for decomposing. And the process is delayed and has to start over once the ammonia is flashed off.
Sometimes I run my mower over leaves 2-3 times to fluff them up. Other times I just put them whole in a bin. I need fresh compost over a period of time and not all at once.
I even mix uncomposted leaves directly in the soil but add in a nitrogen source - usually used coffee grounds but not opposed to using chemical nitrogen if there are no plants growing in that spot.. I try to do this well in advance of Spring if I can.
Sometimes I mix fluffed leaves and unchopped leaves in the same soil - feeds more consistently and over a longer period of time. Depends on what I am planting.
I will mix in some table sugar or brown sugar/molasses.
Microbes need the carbohydrates as well.
What you compost now you most times can use the following year. Be patient!
A cold pile takes forever to break down. You want your pile to be about 120F to 130F consistently.
A very hot composting can kill bugs, eggs, weeds, and weed seeds - 160F or higher for hours.
I have to literally cook the coil from my container plants if I planted anything in the nightshade family. Or if I see bugs.
I cook mine in 12 quart batches to 204F.
Takes all winter to cook a few hundred gallons of soil.
You can do this with leaves - BOIL THEM. Helps beak down the lingins (SP?)
Make compost tea out of the liquid.
Leaves for composting..
Warning about straw - most places commercially that sell the bales sell straw that has been treated with Glyphosate - a poisonous herbicide that kills MANY plants and can last in the soil from 1 to 11 years.
Easiest way to remove the glyphosate is to plant wheat. Takes up the poison. Just dispose of that, plant, berries, roots, all of it before test planting.
Even trees can take up some of it.
And there are other herbicides to worry about.
One neat method of turning compost is a clean or new concrete mixer.
@@ascendant95 About your homestead ideas -
Osage Orange is the hottest burning wood but take a long while to grow. Look up firewood by BTU.
I think they said is had 1 million btu's per chord of Osage Orange. It is dang HARD to split too - twisted fibers...
You would want a variety of trees - conifer types to the north to block cold wind, deciduous trees to the south and west for shade from the sun.
Nut trees give protein and other goodies. Fruit trees give you vitamin C and help the honey bees.
Nut trees draw squirrels (aka tree rats) and that provides another option for food if needed.
Best to plant gardens on the east side of the house - 1st 8 hours or so of sunlight is ideal for most plants. Then some filtered shade for the hottest part of the day.
WATER will be your biggest concern. You might want 2 sources - a stream or similar that doesn't dry up in the summer and a deep well as a backup.
And a watering plan so you don't have to pump or tote water tot he plants.
Cedar trees, while not worth a whole lot, makes great fatwood. But they need a LOT of water...
Must will depend on what you can afford to do vs what you want to do. Rome wasn't built in a day scenario.
Square foot gardening can help a lot for those who do not have much meat or don't eat meat.
RABBITS are excellent - food source, fur, and their poop is an awesome source for composting for plants.
Goats can give you meat, fur, milk. And of course chickens are a great one as well.
The more planning you do not the less problems and mistakes you can have.
New phone. Had to get new email address..haha. wondered why I wasn't getting notifications. Now solved.
Glad you got it solved.
Can you still use leaves with black spots?
Yes
@@CountryLivingExperience Thank you so much.
what happens to tree leaf insulation after several bouts of rain? isn't that going to promote rot of the tree or bush you're trying to protect?
Interesting point. I have not had any issues. Maybe cover the insulated plant with some plastic as well.
@@CountryLivingExperience I noticed after the big February freeze in Texas, that the all plants that I covered with cardboard boxes( large and medium size packing boxes) survived the freeze while about half the plants that I covered in plastic did not survive. I used the cardboard because I ran out of plastic sheeting. I thought that was interesting.
@@veritatis7114 That is very interesting. Thank you for the info.