No-Till Deep Mulch for Garden Creation (using leaf bags!)

Edible Acres is a full service permaculture nursery located in the Finger Lakes area of NY state. We grow all layers of perennial food forest systems and provide super hardy, edible, useful, medicinal, easy to propagate, perennial plants for sale locally or for shipping around the country…
Happy growing!

[meenaxisanga]

Mulching keeps the roots of the plant healthy and protects them from rotting. You did a great job.

[RandyLayheyBro]

Free fertility. What a wonderful resource!!
I think you are doing a great job at turning "waste" into fertility, food and creating amazing biodiversity for wildlife, while sustaining yourself and family with nutritionally packed food and medicine. You are a great teacher and have been a huge part of my journey to self sufficiency and understanding permaculture. Thank you.. ❤ You are awesome.

[mamabeargardens]

I'm jealous of your leaf haul! Back surgery meant I couldn't go out and gather this year. Next year...

[ИзКанады]

Very good. Look on the forest, the falling leaves feed the trees year after year. No any fertilizer, only leafs. Generation after generation go away, but forest alive!

[lauranyc]

Is it a weird thing???? IT IS A HEAVEN THING 😍😍😍😍😍 truly heaven on earth !!!! I absolutely luv your 🪱 . Worms make me happy. Thank you for giving me more endless ideas 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 been watching 5-6 videos every day 😁🙏🏻👍🏻 you speak my language time comes to gardening 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[FeathersFarmstead]

Two videos in a row with the camera drop! I appreciate the bloopers as much as the stellar content! I will gladly watch you throw logs and leaves around. Permaculture Bob Ross for the win....AGAIN! 😂

[jkasak]

My leaves go to feed rabbits first, then as chicken bedding, finally to the garden. Some bags get saved and passed out to family who in turn fill them up with more leaves. Poor quality bags go to line aisles to keep weeds down.

[SS-wzpo]

Great way and example. Free, organic and costs nothing. Thanks for the video 🙏👍❤️

[peterellis]

I wish I could work as fast as you in the video! ;) I can certainly testify to the plant suppression impact of a heavy layer of leaf mulch. Unfortunately, in my case the evidence was observed in the way it held my garlic back :( Lesson learned, I put less over the beds with things I want to come up through the leaves and heavily cover areas where I'm looking for weed suppression and want a 'clean slate' to work with come spring. Our site is twenty acres, almost entirely wooded, so the access to leaves is limited only by my time and energy for leaf collection.

[K.L.M.Online]

I think it’s beautiful!
While I’m still in the looking stage for my own little bit of land, your work is helping me to keep focused on a different kind of pretty.
Thanks!

[loveandoneness.n.e.t]

Its curious to me, someone spent good time to pick all the leaves up. While in your world those leaves job is to be on the ground. Goes to show how different our ideals are about how to treat mother earth

[Kabitzba]

Interesting! I'm collecting tossed cardboard to cover with all sorts of mulch to kill off Bermuda grass & weeds. I saw an old vid and now this. Great content!

[sishrac]

Wonderful! I'm so happy for you. I wish we had this leaf bag culture here in my part of Europe. I can use more leaf mulch than what I get on my plot.

[BackyardBerry]

I wish people raked and bagged leaves for me to take around here.

I’ve been taking like a madman for weeks. lol

[expat]

With Florida's incredibly sandy soil, fall leave collection was a big part of perennial remedy along with seaweed piled adjacent to public launches, much harder to harvest and transport. Currently city dwelling, but hoping to get back on the land. From 🇷🇺 with❤!

[farwoodfarm]

Love it. I have a huge White Oak tree in the back yard and several pin oaks in the front as well as quote a few Gum are plentiful and I don't let any go to waste!

[cowboyblacksmith]

40 bags this Fall I collected, and I know come Spring I'll kick myself for getting so few, lol. I borrowed your idea and covered my carrots with whole filled bags and will dig carrots at will now into winter. They do make for a great instant thick mulch layer. The saved bags are so nice for a weed suppressant layer and browns for the compost. I use most leaves for leaf mold making but found it's so important to save some whole bags to shred into mulch for Spring planting and they break down all summer. Leaves are such a gold mine, it kills me people throw them out like trash.

[maryshehane]

This is a great idea. Many wonderful plants will thank you.

[gardentours]

Wow 60 bags of leaves 🍁🍂🍁👍I use leaves as well for mulching and protecting some plants and for growing soil. Here they use plastic bags for the leaves. The bags you have are much better.

[bryanbeast]

Yay for leaf bags! I do them too but hadn't figured out what to do with the paper part. Now I know. Thanks for the great idea for using the bag part of the leaf bag.