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Started my composting with leaves and grass clippings from my neighbors 4 years ago on this barren piece of property now I have three decent sized raised beds many huge tree-sized pots filled with flowers kale collards lettuce onions tomatoes and one pot by each garden bed for more compost from my own tree clippings and grass clippings and food waste.
This is exactly what I did! Started small learned as I went successful garden in the ground for 3 years until the gophers figured out that tilled soil was soft and wonderful so we built above ground beds from free pallet wood treated with linseed oil. Easy to pull weeds from less bending fill the bottom with big logs and sticks then a little grass then a little of our chickens waste then some weeds then some native soil a little more leaves some kitchen compost and good soil on top very very cheap that way. Matter of fact this year I only bought two bags of soil just to top off small flower pot each winter I feel huge pot with sticks leaves grass hay chicken waste etc even in the snow and let it break down nothing goes to waste around here if you put the weeds towards the bottom they will not sprout because they do not have sunlight. We now have such success growing almost every vegetable we need and saving our own seeds. I highly recommend everyone do this. If everyone grew something the whole world would not go hungry. By the way put chicken wire or poultry wire in the bottom so gophers don't dig up into your raised beds. We have had to borrow gas money twice now just to get to work and back but between three chickens and the greens still growing here in northern Arizona I have had enough nutrition to scrape by with food bank bread I have an egg sandwich with collard greens every day and make a stir fry at night. We can do this people. Don't let evil win 😃👍❤️
You have to be careful where I live getting leaves, there is likely to be needles in it from the druggies.
I cut my grass, the neighbor's grass, the other neighbor's grass, and the neighbor across the street's grass when the leaves start falling, leaves and all. My lawnmower has a mulching blade and a bag, keep dumping in a pile to compost, or throw on layer after layer in new raised beds, along with garden "waste", chicken coop materials, and kitchen scraps. Best soil ever!
The service you're talking about is… chip …….drop…..( every time I put that comment, it gets deleted, and I don't understand why.) But it's those 2 words together
I would love to hear any information you or anyone else has on how to prepare or eat milk thistle. Plenty grows around here and I see the crows eating the flowers from the top but I have yet to find information on how humans are to consume it and what part of the plant to use. Yes we harvest daisies, mallow, petunia and pansy flowers as well as dandelions and use them in our salads during the summer and spring. Very nutritious.
I live in sububia, have a 5000 sq ft BTE garden. The small city close to us has a mulch service. It is composted leaves and wood chips, free, I drive up in my truck and they load it with a loader! It is black gold and I get many loads every year. If you have this option where you live Its a great way to go!
I would be concerned about poison crap people use on their property. My lawn is covered in leaves and it looks beautiful! About half of them get blown away by the wind but I still have enough to help the lawn and all the pollinators hanging out in my yard! 🧡💚🐝
They become my bedding for my animals for the winter then become compost for my garden.
You can also get free, from the county, wood chips.
Thanks Zach !
Ask for them – theyre glad to get rid of em
I like to get the ones that are bagged up
The City of Alma Michigan composts it all winters and turns it into marvelous soil and allows the residents to come pick it up free the following spring
I have two larg piles of mulch .for free. thanks to the tree line service
I love leaves. I bag them up to make 'leaf mold'. I mulch the last of them with the grass to feed the lawn. And burn what left for ash use.
Zack, stop by any of the Starbucks in the Centerville area and ask for coffee grounds. They will give you as much as you like.
Cheap is good, free is better. I even throw sawdust in my compost pile.
Nice, thanks. Shalom.
My only concern is all the chemicals and weed killers people spray on their lawn..
been using leaves for compost and bedding in the chicken coop and run for years also have my neighbors saving them for me
Ya had to 'feature' a page of Self-Centerville? lol Yup…they would definitely be the ones to take all this stuff for granted, for sure, if any place around here. Them and Oakwood. Not to say Troy and others don't either. I think it's a 'city' thing, in general.
I know the cyanide concentration in black cherry leaves increases dramatically when wilted, as do red maple, etc… How does this affect your food in the garden, if used for compost, if at all?
So, moving back to suburbia are ya? I knew it, ya just couldnt stay away. You are sad Zach.
I know, in our town, they have an 'organic' dump just outside of town, where they take it all. Nothing treated or inorganice is allowed in it.
Among other places to call are area horse boarding facilities! They often have to pay to get the manure hauled away, if they are not on/near a working food farm as well. A lot of it has been sitting out there for months and months and sometimes years, so it's already good to put on gardens.
I get free oak and maple tree leaves every winter. They are bagged up and ready for me to pick up.
I avoid oak leaves, too acidic.
🤣🤣🤣 to the people who don't know about compost, you look crazy admiring the leaves.
no leaf leaves my property by my choice. they all go mulch the beds. usually my neighbor bags his and I grab them