However, unlike traditional compost that undergoes a heat generating, bacterially driven process, leaf mold is produced through a cooler and much slower fungal driven process.

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

Unlike traditional compost, leaf mold is a “cold” composting process and can take up to three years. Hastening the process depends on the leaves, whether they are whole or shredded, and the ...

Leaf mold is composed entirely of leaves, while traditional compost is a composition of kitchen waste, grass clippings, maybe leaves, amended with soil and nutrients from fertilizer.

True leaf mold takes at least a year to develop, but this quick version will continue to break down after it’s applied. It’s almost like a shortcut to compost.

Big Red Worms is using the fall leaf litter to make leaf mold, which is compost produced primarily by fungal breakdown of deciduous shrub and tree leaves.

Leaf mold is similar to what is found on the forest floor. Learn more about composting at seati.ms/RgtjIA. Q: How do I use leaf compost and leaf mold?

Leaf mold compost was spread across treatment blocks before all the plots were cultivated. All the plots, those with and those without compost, were then planted with tomato.

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