Do you know about leaf mold? in the All Things Gardening forum

Mar 30, 2018 1:43 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: ellenr
New Jersey, USA (Zone 7a)

I am starting to use the leaf mold I made from letting leaves sit for about 3-4 years. I'm adding it to my soil.
I have so much I want to give it to a fellow gardener.
But am wondering if it could be *too* old.
thx.

| @ellenr22 | Post #1671429 (1)

Toni

Mar 30, 2018 3:13 PM CST

Name: Toni Melvin
Sherwood Oregon (Zone 8a)

@ellenr22

In my experience the older the better with leaf mold. There is all kinds of life in leaf mold. If I were your neighbor, I would pay you good money for that stuff. But obviously you be the judge on how your plants like it.
Happy gardening

Toni
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| @Toni | Post #1671511 (2)

Philipwonel

Mar 31, 2018 3:31 PM CST

Name: Philip Becker
Fresno California (Zone 8a)

I works great as a mulch/ weedbarrier. It decays down, into soil. Improving soil.
Working it into soil now, will deplete soil of nitrogen.
Best, worked into soil in fall, so it can decay some over winter. 👍👍

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Anything i say, could be misrepresented, or wrong.

| @Philipwonel | Post #1672315 (3)

ellenr22

Apr 1, 2018 4:12 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: ellenr
New Jersey, USA (Zone 7a)

Philip,
from what I've read leaf mold is already broken down - and therefore does not deplete soil of nitrogen.
Not saying you are wrong, just that there are different opinions...

which is why I am researching...

thanks.

Philipwonel said:I works great as a mulch/ weedbarrier. It decays down, into soil. Improving soil.
Working it into soil now, will deplete soil of nitrogen.
Best, worked into soil in fall, so it can decay some over winter. 👍👍

😎😎😎

| @ellenr22 | Post #1672598 (4)

purpleinopp

Apr 3, 2018 8:08 AM CST

Name: Tiffany purpleinopp
Opp, AL @--`--,----- 🌹 (Zone 8b)

leaf mould, not mold.

I would not work it into soil at all, just put it on the surface, like mother nature does in a forest.

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| @purpleinopp | Post #1674286 (5)

Philipwonel

Apr 3, 2018 10:12 AM CST

Name: Philip Becker
Fresno California (Zone 8a)

Yep !😀! It's great mulch, and fortifies the soil. Earthworms love it too ?👍!!!
😎😎😎

Anything i say, could be misrepresented, or wrong.

| @Philipwonel | Post #1674366 (6)

Yardenman

Apr 3, 2018 11:21 PM CST

Name: Yardenman
Maryland (Zone 7a)

If you have "too much" and don't have a neighbor who gardens, spread it around any trees you have. But quite frankly, I can't imagine having too much of the stuff for gardening and flowerbed usage. I could use a truckload of it!

If nothing else, just get a compost spreader and put 1/4" on your lawn each year.

| @Yardenman | Post #1674946 (7)

stone

Apr 4, 2018 3:35 PM CST

Name: stone
near Macon Georgia (USA) (Zone 8a)

purpleinopp said:leaf mould, not mold.

I would not work it into soil at all, just put it on the surface, like mother nature does in a forest.

Me 2.
No such thing as "too much"!

Please visit my garden!

| @stone | Post #1675477 (8)

tx_flower_child

Apr 11, 2018 9:43 PM CST

Name: tfc
North Central TX (Zone 8a)

Oh, I think I like that compost spreader.

| @tx_flower_child | Post #1681661 (9)

ellenr22

Apr 12, 2018 4:41 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: ellenr
New Jersey, USA (Zone 7a)

It is "mold"

I don't know what "mould" is, unless it is mold in UK.

purpleinopp said:leaf mould, not mold.

I would not work it into soil at all, just put it on the surface, like mother nature does in a forest.

| @ellenr22 | Post #1681720 (10)

hostasmore

Apr 12, 2018 3:40 PM CST

Name: Gary
Wyoming MN (Zone 4a)

Mold and mould are not the same thing. One is a pathogen and the other is a soil leaf and debris mixture.

| @hostasmore | Post #1682206 (11)

stone

Apr 12, 2018 4:03 PM CST

Name: stone
near Macon Georgia (USA) (Zone 8a)

I 'googled' it...
apparently they're used interchangeably.... And while I'd always seen it with the 'u', it appears that any article from the states doesn't use it.

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://www.google.com/search?...

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| @stone | Post #1682222 (12)

tx_flower_child

Apr 12, 2018 8:35 PM CST

Name: tfc
North Central TX (Zone 8a)

@stone — I don't know that it will make you feel any better but I've also seen it spelled with a 'u'. Whenever I did, however, I always skimmed past it.

Just reading the subject lines on your links to Google is kind of amusing. Thanks for posting.

| @tx_flower_child | Post #1682431 (13)

Yardenman

Apr 13, 2018 3:52 AM CST

Name: Yardenman
Maryland (Zone 7a)

Well, if it is broken down into anything that resembles dirt, you have garden GOLD! Does that help? If not, give it another year for the garden or spread it around (not mounded up) any specimen trees now.

| @Yardenman | Post #1682541 (14)

purpleinopp

Apr 13, 2018 5:48 AM CST

Name: Tiffany purpleinopp
Opp, AL @--`--,----- 🌹 (Zone 8b)

That is the main point, Yardenman, by either spelling.

| @purpleinopp | Post #1682585 (15)

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