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Gardening

MissB

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5. We use wire rounds to pile up leaves in the fall

Reply to ellenrr (Original post)

Mon Apr 9, 2018, 03:59 PM

Apr 2018

And by spring the bottom 2 feet or so is leaf mold. It rains a lot here, so they have an advantage over other parts of the country that don’t get as much rain. The worms do their magic but it’d take another year to get to the top two feet of the wire round. I tend to use those top two feet of not-quite-leaf-mold in my garden beds in the next fall, or even in the first spring if I’m building a new bed.

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Making leaf mold. [View all] ellenrr Apr 2018 OP

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I just let a pile sit on bare ground over the winter and have leaf mold by May. sinkingfeeling Apr 2018 #4

We use wire rounds to pile up leaves in the fall MissB Apr 2018 #5