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Don't Waste Your Leaves; Compost Them

Dan Gill
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LSU AgCenter
Credit Dan Gill / LSU AgCenter
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LSU AgCenter

For a full year, trees work diligently pulling nutrients from deep in the soil to develop the year's foliage. But all too often, gardeners rake these leaves only to bag them and put them at the side of the road. These bags of brown gold then get taken to the landfill to serve no other purpose.

Yard clippings and other compostable materials comprise 28% of the material thrown into landfills in the U.S. This is an alarming amount of material that could otherwise be composted. Using fallen leaves in the garden is one of the easiest and cheapest solutions gardeners can employ in their own hard.

Fallen leaves make an excellent mulch and it's free. Rake, blow, or mow your leaves and collect them to mulch. It's almost as if money does in fact grow on trees.

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LSU AgCenter's Lee Rouse is our new host for Bayou Garden.