John Hogan | The Grand Rapids Press Mix it up: A good mix of leaves provides the right ingredients for leaf mold. This pile includes slow-to-break-down red and pin oak leaves and those that break ...

Each year the layer of leaf mold got a little thicker, the older stuff turning into true leaf mold, while the top layer slowly broke down. It held down the weeds, too. I don't bag my leaves in the ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! I see many homeowners cleaning up leaves this fall around the valley. Why not gather these leaves to make leaf mold, a valuable compost? This week I ...

Leaf mold is a type of compost made entirely from fallen leaves. This method is super easy and perfect for fall, when the trees are shedding their leaves all around us.

Trampling the leaves down in layers ensures that leaf mold fungi are encouraged while compost bacteria, which need oxygen, are excluded.

You can also pile leaves up to use for later compost piles in the spring when you have more green waste. I like to use hog wire or cattle feedlot fence panels formed into a ring to pile leaves in ...

Leaves are very high in carbon but low in nitrogen. If you rake your leaves without first mowing the lawn, your leaf pile will languish unless you add a source of nitrogen, just as your compost pile ...

Consider making leaf mold if you don't want to make a leaf compost pile but want to get all the nutrient benefits. "Create leaf mold by letting piles of leaves break down for six months to a year ...

I have written before about how I make leaf mold in my garden. But today, I thought it would be useful to share how I use the leaf mold that I make since I have been asked about this a few times ...

Sprinkle a little nitrogen-containing fertilizer (any commercial granular fertilizer, cotton seed meal or blood meal) over ...

I also use fine, finished leaf mold as an ingredient—sometimes alone, sometimes alongside compost, loam, and other ingredients—in my homemade growing media for containers and seed starting.