{"id":1672,"date":"2012-10-26T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2020-08-28T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T11:45:20","slug":"make-your-own-leafmould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/make-your-own-leafmould\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your own Leafmould"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/make-your-own-leafmould\/autumnleaves\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11151\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"autumnleaves\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/autumnleaves-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>Autumn can be a lovely time of year but the work involved in clearing up all the dropped leaves can be a chore each year. However, there is a benefit to be had &#8211; they make a fabulous free source of organic matter.<\/p>\n<p>Leafmould is ideal for use as a soil improver, mulch or potting compost. Here&#8217;s what to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fill black polythene bags with wet leaves<\/li>\n<li>Tie a knot in the top of the bags<\/li>\n<li>Puncture a few holes in the sides of each bag<\/li>\n<li>Place the bags behind the garden shed for a year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next autumn the rich organic material can be used to improve the soil and mulch the surface after planting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn can be a lovely time of year but the work involved in clearing up all the dropped leaves can be a chore each year. However, there is a benefit to be had &#8211; they make a fabulous free source of organic matter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-composting","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16038,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/16038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}