Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Anita,

there is a good chance that some of the leaves from the neighbors are in your pile anyway courtesy of the wind. My suggestion is to mulch the leaves through a lawn mower and then blend them with a a high nitrogen fertilizer like a 10-1-1 or even Urea which is pure nitrogen. The heat generated by the enzymes will be quite sufficient to neutralizing the chemicals used in their yard for they are highly volatile. (That is why your nose burns when you walk into the garden centers of most stores.) In just a few weeks they should be safe for the garden.
jeff

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From: Melanie Snyder Lindblom <msnyderlindblom@gmail.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 1:29 PM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] amending with neighbors leaves


 
I maintain an organic backyard and am rewarded with lots of bird life and animal life. My neighbors are into chemicals. I choose not to use their leaves because I don't want my yard to have their chemicals. Melanie zone 6a MI
On Feb 22, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Anita Sands Hernandez wrote:

> Garden work in all FOUR seasons should entail plenty of your own garden
> leaves and those of your neighbors. i.e. their trash barrels and those
> big bags of leaves they leave out by curb on trash nite. Mulch with your
> own dead leaves, twigs and compost that forms in odd corners of the
> garden. It's free, it's better than good. You want to create a mulch
> corner? Create your own mulch lifter, invent a way, a flat shovel
> --maybe...http://www.masterjules.net/mulcher.htm
>

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