Autumn is a beautiful season. Yes, the temperatures are dropping, but everything is so colorful and there are promises of the upcoming holidays in the air. Not to mention how beautiful the large parks in London are during this time of year – Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, Victoria Park and Richmond Park among many others are covered in yellow, brown and red, creating a real fairy-tale atmosphere.
When it comes to your own open space in the back yard however, autumn may turn out to be a real pain, because all those otherwise beautiful fallen leaves are quite troublesome to clean, and if you decide to skip getting rid of them, it will create further problems in the maintenance of your garden.
So, you are required to make an effort in order to clean up your garden from fallen leaves. No matter whether you choose to do that by yourself, or you hire a rubbish removal company that also offers garden maintenance services – most contractors in the field today do that – it would be a good idea instead of just treating the leaves as junk disposal material, to put them in good use. This is where leaf moulds come to play.
A leaf mould is basically a compost exclusively for leaves. You gather all the material in one place and leave it there to decompose until it forms black matter that is perfect for enriching your soil, thus helping you improve the health and the quality of the plants in your garden.
In order to build a leaf mould, you are going to need very few materials. There are the leaves to be collected in one huge pile, of course – as we have said, you can either do that on your own, or hire a rubbish removal company for the job. Do that in a specifically designated place, marked with four wooden posts hammered to the ground in a way that they form a square one meter from one another. The place thus marked should be wrapped with chicken net, so that a kind of a basket in which you are going to pile the leaves is formed. If you want to make the decaying process as fast and efficient as possible, all that you have to do is ensure that there is a little moisture in the whole mixture, because it makes the whole process faster.
You should also have in mind that this form of heaps attracts a lot of wildlife, predominantly bugs. With them however will come the birds that feed on the bugs and little beetles. And in some cases you can even invite hedgehogs in your garden. They are cute animals that you would be glad to have at your place, so keep your fingers crossed.
As you can see it is not hard at all to have a leaf mould built at your place – all you need is some effort and dedication to the job, so just get down to work next weekend.