Improving Soil Health - Best Thing You Can Do in the Fall

I do encourage gardeners around me to compost. It can be done even in fairly small gardens. I use black plastic bags to do my compost and it takes around a year for all the debris to turn into beautiful aromatic soil.
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[@adalineblythe9653]

I want to try composting and then I see a video like this and it just feeds the urge.

[@nerinat8371]

I purposely planted deciduous trees for leaf composting and also because l love them.. l love the bag composting, great idea. Thanks so much

[@OlgaCarmody]

You are welcome, Nerina, I love composting as well!

[@narnianiche9585]

Thanks again for sharing!

[@victoriadebatte9486]

Letting the leaves decompose out of the boundary of our yard has helped us so much. Our yard was quite small when we moved in 6 years ago, but after many falls where we blew our leaves to the boundary all those leaves have made our yard so much bigger! Every spring when I go to inspect, as I leaf blow I sing “lawn extension” to myself. Now I’ve got tons of space for my hostas!
Composting is amazing!

[@OlgaCarmody]

Totally agree, composting is amazing! And leaves are great free gifts!

[@mythriftedhomeandgarden830]

It’s the time of year!😅 I even gather the leaves from the neighborhood, process with leaf mulcher and admittedly I mixed it with blood meal and mulch it in my garden bed. I had a bumper crop of cucumber, loofah and Swiss chard in the bed that I applied my leaf-blood meal mulch without application of any fertilizer the whole season

[@OlgaCarmody]

That blood meal can do wonders in the garden, right? I am planning to do one application next spring for all the garden.

[@mythriftedhomeandgarden830]

@@OlgaCarmody I bought a 50 lbs sack during the winter. I realized that buying organic fertilizers over the winter cost 30-50% less. Other bulk fertilizers I bought are Rose Tones and Plant Tones

[@OlgaCarmody]

@@mythriftedhomeandgarden830 Yes, that is one of money savers in the garden.

[@dollyperry3020]

I amend in the fall with manure and in the spring with compost

[@brendacolquhoun5084]

Does the construction bag need drainage holes poked in it?

[@OlgaCarmody]

Yes, holes in the bottom are a must!

[@barbarawall6349]

Do you add any thing other than leaves?

[@Sunshine-xt1vb]

I have wanted to compost for a long time but would have to do a separate barrel for kitchen scraps like you do. What exactly do you compost in the black bags?

[@OlgaCarmody]

No meat, no fish or oils go into that compost barrel. I put all the veg scraps into it. Really golden stuff which we so often throw away.

[@tamnguyen-ib9bc]

Hi Mrs. Olga,
Do you feed cow manure for your roses in October?

[@OlgaCarmody]

Sometimes I do, sometimes I use compost, whichever comes in plenty.