Autumn leaves are like a big load of free organic fertilizer. I hire a fellow to chop up and bag our leaves each fall, dump them in the garden, and I spread them out like a winter coat . Underneath, come spring, the soil will be black, rich, with too many wriggler worms to count. While you take a nap or cook blueberry pancakes, the worms will multiply, aerate your soil, fertilize it with their castings and leave free compost for you. Our kitchen swill we keep separately in a bin because it seems … well, more dignified.
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Lovely compost! These days I can’t use kitchen leavings of any kind in my compost pile thanks to our currently being on our local Yogi’s (black bear) route. Even our Fort Knox trash cans have been trashed, so now during spring/summer/fall, we just make twice-weekly trips to the dump with our kitchen trash. Pain in the a**, but much less so than having to pick up scattered trash & replace expensive trash cans.