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Transcript: Leaves as Mulch
These landscape leaves represent a valuable resource for our landscapes. Each year a lot of folks bag them up and pay someone to haul them away, and that’s really a shame because leaves are really valuable as a mulch, covering the soil surface. They deter weeds from growing and germinating. They also help protect the soil from crusting and eroding during the winter and moderate soil temperatures as well.In time these leaves start to break down. Not only do they make an attractive mulch, but they begin to feed the soil as they break down. You see, about 50 to 80 percent of the nutrients that a tree takes up during the season are in its leaves, so these represent nature’s own slow-release fertilizer. As you mulch your plants year after year, those nutrients are released to feed your plants over time, the natural way. It just makes sense.
Make mulch to do about something. Turn your landscape trash to treasure. I’m Skip Richter.
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