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I was thinking since I'm from the northeast of America and we have such a heavy amount of leaf fall do farmers use leaves for fertilizer instead of manure?

I was thinking since I'm from the northeast of America and we have such a heavy amount of leaf fall do farmers use leaves for fertilizer instead of manure?

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Compost them first.

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So just spreading them out doesn't really work?

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No, they become a mat that nothing grows through. You could run them through a shredder, that might help.

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They break down faster if mixed with soil and manure and kept moist, turned over every so often. You end up with a nutrient rich humus that helps to build up soils.

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Ahh that's the rich coffee looking soil. On my father's property I'll find all the soil we need for plantings over by a intermittent stream he has. That soil is so rich. It's filled with tons of leaf fall and dead plant matter. I'd imagine some bugs as well.

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I do. I shred them first to speed decomposition in my composting bin. Mix with soil and manure, wet it down and keep covered so it stays moist, turn it over a few times over the course of a few months and it turns into rich humus.

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