Burning dry leaves is dangerous!
Have you seen the dried leaves being burnt in the parks and your street?
STOP it, immediately!
Dry leaves are Carbon and burning them produces Carbon-di-oxide. It is learnt in school days that carbon-di-oxide reduces the oxygen and is poisonous!
The leaves have been shedding in abundant this season and we have been provided with natural rich resource by nature, that we are burning out, unknowingly!
Pic Credits : Srikant Kapuganti
Leaf Composters
Leaf Composting is VERY easy and cost effective than any other kind of composting. There are many commercially available Leaf Composters too, but a simple DIY is good enough.
Just push all the leaves to a corner of the garden or the park and retain moisture level by pouring water on it 2-3 times a week and thats it!
You could use these DIY methods too, which is done by my gardening friends :
Pic Courtesy : Veena Rao
Pic Courtesy : Amar Daniel Gabrian
Pic Courtesy : Manju Mohan
After gathering ideas from my friends who were already leaf composting, I picked up my way of doing it : two old laundary bags:
And set them up on top of each other as below :
How much time does it take to be composted?
It takes about 3 months to get the composted.
Any accelerators could be used?
To speed up leaf composting, you could use cow dung slurry or leachate from composting bins.
Further Reads
If you are on OTG group, you could read these threads too :
- Is there any DIY LEAF COMPOSTER technique you use?
- Can we use any accelerators to fasten leaf composting?
- Related Albums by Vani Murthy on Leaf Composting can be found here , here and here.
Got Honge Tree? You are luckier!
If you have HONGE trees around your house, you cant get LUCKIER! Leaf shedding, will soon be followed by flower shedding, which will be THE MOST nutrient compost. Add it up to the leaf compost pile and see the difference in the veggie quality you grow!
Pic Courtesy : Vani Murthy
Pic Courtesy : Vani Murthy
Learn to ignore :-P
Just Happy Composting! :)
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