{"id":648,"date":"2021-11-19T16:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/?p=648"},"modified":"2021-11-19T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:28:08","slug":"composting-autumn-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/composting-autumn-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Composting autumn leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/leaf-compost.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/leaf-compost.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/leaf-compost-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/leaf-compost-520x693.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/11\/leaf-compost-320x427.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Although a little hard work is involved, these fallen leaves are valuable; they can be composted, making a rich organic mulch and soil improver, given a little time and encouragement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compost created from fallen leaves is ideal for using around acid soil loving plants such as Rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fallen leaves take longer to break down than grass cuttings, soft plant trimmings and vegetable waste. Time to compost depends on the leaf type: oak and beech leaves will take a couple of years, whereas sorbus and birch compost in twelve months. To hasten the process use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenworld.co.uk\/product\/compost-maker\/\">Vitax Compost Maker<\/a>. Just sprinkle it on to the leaves as you add a layer to the compost heap. It works best when the leaves are moist, so leaves mixed with grass are ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a large amount of leaves they are best composted in in a separate compost heap and managed in the same way as standard compost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although a little hard work is involved, these fallen leaves are valuable; they can be composted, making a rich organic mulch and soil improver, given a little time and encouragement. Compost created from fallen&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-gardening-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}