What is something useful and productive you do with the dried up leaves that the streets are filled with?

Question

NOT TRASHING THEM!!!!!!

Answer 1

may cities now collect your fall leaves and compost them. In return you can pick up the free compost at their facilities.

Alternatively you can compost the leaves yourself. Depending on your lot size, you can buy different composting bins. For a typical city lot, a small plastic bin is sufficient. For a healthy compots you need equal parts brown, green and dirt.

Brown is your dry leaves, twigs, paper etc. It provides the necessary carbon.

Green is your kitchen scraps such as vegetable peels, grass clippings, which provide moisture and nitrogen.

Dirt... well, from dust to dust, you know how it goes. the dirt provides the necessary fungi, bacteria and earthwork to mix the whole thing.

there is also accelerated composting... but don't worry about it. For home use, keep it simple with the above mentioned recipe. In a year you will have nice brown healthy compost for your garden.

Answer 2

Collect them in a wire mesh enclosure and let them sit for one year. You can make extremely good soil by letting leaves decompose. The quality of this soil may be enhanced if you add some lime or horse manure from time to time. Add this new soil to your flower beds and gardens. Potting soil costs $3 to $4 per bag at the garden store. So, depending upon how much you need, there is money in new dirt.

Answer 3

It is not that easy to get organic soil from leaves.When leaves are decomposing they act as good breeding ground for bacteria and fungus.If any one want to make compost in house they need to take lot of precautions or else the atmosphere surrounding will be filled with microbe parasites

Answer 4

well, if trashing means composting, it is not at all useless (see the other answers. ) anyway composting is the most reasonable thing to do with it - bring it back to the Nature´s nutrient cycle.

what else - you can always use some leaves for decoration ( but this doesnt solve what to do with the bulk of it, does it?

you can use dry leaves as bedding for animals

Answer 5

like zahbudar said above, but keep it wet mix in some soil, to increase bacteria count, and maybe throw in some worms.

doesn't really take a year, if you turn your pile a time or two.
should be ready to go by next planting season.

can also be used as ground cover to keep weeds down around tomatoes and other plants people usually buy wheat straw for.

Answer 6

Mulch!