Where you can usefully use fallen leaves in autumn.

Every year in the fall at summer residents and owners of private homes is a problem: where to put which fell foliage. Most often it is burnt or taken to the nearest bins.

Thus, people will destroy a very useful natural product that can be used for many purposes.
Here are just some examples of the useful lives of fallen leaves.

It is worth noting that moment, if the trees were not treated against pests and diseases, then the affected leaves really better to burn. Thus it is possible to prevent the occurrence of disease in the following year.

But if gardeners carefully monitor the condition of the trees and the time spent processing, such foliage can be used for the following purposes:

- ukryvochny material for perennial plants, who fear the heavy frost. Foliage breathable and water, perfectly protecting the plant from freezing;

- fallen leaves are used for mulching shrubs, trees and other plants. Also leaves covered in winter beds, so she humus, and then dug up the soil in the spring, along with the leaves. In winter, on the surface of the beds is formed cake and washed nutrients. In the spring, the foliage humus serve as an excellent fertilizer. The soil becomes loose and light;

- leaves dumped on the compost pit, where it rot and acts as a fertilizer. This compost is perfect for growing seedlings and potted flowers;

- many owners who raise a large amount of vegetables in his garden, often dig potatoes for storage in the pit, to be something covered.

Itself directly potatoes covered straw layer, and then ground. But in a particularly harsh winters can be further hide the pit fallen leaves. But at the time the shelter leaves should be dry.

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