Let them be.. Let them be.. Let them be…
Benefits to leaving your Leaves
or moving them to your garden
Leaves are absolutely amazing and very useful. No need to get mad at them and burn them or shove them in bags at all filling up our landfills that are already busting at the seems. Natural fertilizer and food!
Here are a few amazing things fallen leaves can do:
- They are a natural mulch, protecting the roots and trees from cold winter temperatures
- They also help fertilize the soil as they break down over the winter months
- They are food! For the microorganisms, earthworms and fungi
- They also serve as homes for amphibians, mammals and insects
- Leaving them can also help with erosion by protecting the bare soil
I LOVE to rake them onto a large tarp and pull that tarp to my garden and flip it over in the fall and winter and let them break down during the cold months to help protect the soil and break down to help create fertilizer.
Watch as we do it in this video at Christmas time as it was abnormally warm this past year.
