Why import land if you can take it from a neighbor?

Many of my friends, and you, dear readers-commentators, write to share what kind of land and in what quantity they brought to their summer cottages to increase soil fertility.

I always stayed on the sidelines and did not tell where I get the soil to fertilize the beds. It's time to fix this and share your life hack. That is why Zen was created - to share the tricks of the country house and construction 😀

The fact is that opposite me is a completely abandoned suburban area. The neighbors to whom he belongs have not appeared on the site for fifteen years. There is not even a fence there - just a wall of trees.

Naturally, the site was instantly flooded with the American Maple - an incredibly tenacious plant that grows in height from 1.5 to 2 meters in a year.

And so that maple branches do not block the passage along the alley, once a year I cut off all the young growth and leave it to rot there, on the site opposite. For a year, the leaves rot, and awesome black soil accumulates along the border of the site.

I drag this black soil to my beds. The harvest is good.

On the one hand, I am wrong to take black soil from a neighboring plot.
On the other hand, except for me, none of the gardeners look after the abandoned plot: everyone drives along the road, and only I cut the branches. As well as large logs, only I burn, too - no one needs it.

It turns out that I produce black soil from leaves, and I take it. Something like a remote farm in a long-term lease for the connivance of the owners.

What do you think about that?

I would be glad to hear your opinion in the comments to this article.
Thanks for reading to the end!