It is autumn, the leaves are falling. With a slight delay this year due to the anomalous heat wave that hit our peninsula. Is it global warming to blame? In any case, plants and vegetables have continued with their life cycle, letting the first yellow leaves that have detached from the branches sway in the air.
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It's autumn, leaves fall. With a slight delay this year due to the anomalous heat wave that hit our peninsula. The fault of the global warming? In any case, plants and vegetables have continued with their life cycle, letting the first yellow leaves that have detached from the branches sway in the air.
For those who have a large garden and want to keep it in order, it represents a real job to do rake and collect the fallen leaves. It can happen to accumulate a large amount over the course of the season. We want to give you some tips so that they do not go unnecessarily to waste. The leaves can be useful both for the care ofgarden than to entertain yours children.
1. You can use the leaves, whole or chopped, to create a dry path in your garden. Simply combine them with gravel, pebbles or fragments of wood and arrange them in the spot in your garden where you want to create a path.
2. Dried leaves are perfect for making one mulch, which will help you keep the growth of weeds (bearing in mind that there are some edibles!) and to maintain the right soil moisture during the cold season.
3. If you want to prepare the uncultivated land for a spring planting, the dry leaves will help you nourish it during the winter. Sprinkle it with the leaves you have collected. Decaying they will constitute a natural fertilizer for the land, which will be richer at the time of sowing.
4. If you already have one composter in your garden, you can think of enriching yours compost home just with the leaves that you have collected. Keep in mind that their time ofdecomposition it will be longer than that of food waste, but in this way you will obtain a compost with more balanced properties for the nourishment of your garden.
5. If you don't need a large amount of natural fertilizer during the winter, you can think of preserve a part of the leaves inside paper bags or canvas bags so you can use them for the composting in spring.
6. If you have a wooden box available, you can think of storing it in the garden. It will become your composter for making a compost in layers. Cover the bottom of the box with a layer of cardboard or newspaper sheets and continue arranging alternately dry leaves, layers of paper and food scraps.
7. It is possible to make natural fertilizer by simply placing dry leaves and water inside a bucket. The leaves will need to be moistened and accumulated in the container. You will thus get a compost of leaves rich in calcium and magnesium.
8. The collected leaves can be dried, keeping their shape, under a press or between the pages of a dictionary. You will think of frame the most beautiful creating original squares to decorate your home with an autumn theme or as a gift.
9. The leaves will be useful for involving your children in numerous chores. With the leaves they can make gods collage or enrich their designs. They can use them as stamps, passing tempera on their surface to create highly original paintings.
10 The finest dried leaves can be used for creating decorations on the occasion of Halloween and Christmas. With chestnuts, pine cones, holly, apples, dried leaves and a little fantasy it is possible to create an original centerpiece for the holidays or one Garland to hang on the front door.
Marta Albè
