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Jan 5, 2011

Leaves for compost

How do you deal with outer leaves of your vegetables? In my case all of them are buried in soil for composting.
Daikon's and chinese cabbage's outer leaves which I cut off can be good compost in a soil in a few month and the process can make the soil fertile.
Daikon's leaves can be pickled with salt and delicious but the soil in my garden is still less nutritious so there is worth "investing" the leaves.











You can see difference in colors of Daikon's leaves which had been buried a few month ago and new leaves. The old ones have turned yellow in a soil.

-- from iPad

3 comments:

Hazel said...

Nothing is wasted in my garden. The dogs and cats eat any bones or left over meat. Although we do not eat much meat. The chickens and goats eat most other things like leaves and peelings. Anything that is left, goes into my compost.

takaeko said...

>Hazel
Yeah, you ara right!
The soil in my garden needs more nutrition so I hope the soil will be more nutritious.
You have kinds of animals and their feces or manure are good for your garden, I believe.

p3chandan said...

Takaeko, thats a good way to give back to the earth what we get from them. Good gardening tip!