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Adair Co. Garden Club needs your leaves By Barbara Armitage After the winds yesterday any leaves that were still on the trees are probably on the ground now waiting to be raked up. Please don't trash those leaves, the Adair County Garden Club needs them This has been a perfect fall - sun shining, cool breezes, bright colors dotting the landscape, leaves falling and falling and falling. It truly boggles the mind just how many leaves can fall from one tree. Now is a good time to gather up the family for an old fashion leaf raking party. If that idea doesn't go over with your family you might try a variety of blowers, vacuums and shredders on the market today. No matter what method you use you can still end up with a huge volume of leaf debris that must be disposed of. Out of sight out of mind? Sending your leaves to a landfill is no more getting rid of them than blowing them into your neighbor's yard. Someday the wind will change and you will still have to deal with them. So what's the big deal about trashing your leaves? Plenty, especially if you're using plastic trash bags. While leaves on their own decompose rather quickly leaves in plastic trash bags can remain unchanged practically forever. So what's a raker to do? There are other choices. By composting or recycling leaves, you can help the earth replenish itself. Fallen leaves are responsible for replacing between 50 percent and 80 percent of the nutrients a tree extracts from the earth. Use your shredded leaves as mulch to protect trees and plants from the winter cold. Mulching around newly planted perennials can reduce the possibility of "heaving". New plants haven't had the time to become well rooted and constant freezing and thawing can "heave" them from the ground. Finely mulched leaves can be left on your lawn adding much needed nutrients and reducing the need for fertilizers. Our heavy clay soil benefits from the organic matter that the leaves produce leaving us with a healthier lawn. Topping your compost pile with shredded leaves can help maintain the temperatures needed to keep your compost "working" throughout the winter rewarding you with fresh compost in the spring. If these "earthy ideas" don't appeal to your nature there is one more answer to your leafy dilemma. Give the leaves away. The Adair County Garden Club will be happy to pick up your bagged leaves and put them to work in our gardens and compost piles. To arrange for free pick-up of your bagged leaves call Barbara Armitage at (270) 250-2979 or Wendy Burt at (270) 634-0504. This story was posted on 2010-11-17 18:23:06
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