Composting Oak Leaves

msterspy · 2005-05-02T02:19:39+00:00

I live in the Boston area and I have about 5 oak trees and two pines.I get a lot of leaves and I recently contracted a guy to move all ofthe leaves to the rear corner of the yard. $300 for probably 1/2 daywork. Everything is expensive in the Boston area. Anyway, it would bevery costly to have the leaves carted off to the dump. The yard slopesaway form the house and it would be cost a lot more to remove thepile. I would like to add something like lime to speed up the decompostion.Is this a good plan? Is there any other beter way to speed up theproceess. There will be a huge pile of leaves and it builds up everyyear.

May 02, 2005 22 Replies

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Travis 21 years ago

Use some liquid fish fertilizer it's 5-1-1.

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Travis 21 years ago

That is just crazy.

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cat daddy 21 years ago

Maybe. But, so will battery acid. Since you're trying to encourage organic decay, using an organic form of nitrogen won't wipe out all the good bacteria, worms, etc. Get a 50 lb. bag of alfalfa meal (about $10 from a feed store) and soak about 5 lbs. in a 5 gallon bucket and mix into your leaves. Cheap and healthy.

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