{"id":1362,"date":"2019-10-22T08:53:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2019-10-17T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T02:03:50","slug":"5-ways-to-put-fall-leaves-to-work-in-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/5-ways-to-put-fall-leaves-to-work-in-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Put Fall Leaves to Work in Your Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Why Are Leaves Valuable to the Gardener?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simple. When incorporated into soil, fall leaves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add nutrients, including phosphorous and potassium<\/li>\n<li>Increase the soil\u2019s microbial life<\/li>\n<li>Boost its water-holding capacity<\/li>\n<li>Improve its structure, known as tilth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And did I mention that leaves are free? It takes little effort on your part to get them working for you, so instead of sweeping them to the curb, here are five ways to use leaves in your garden.<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Mow Them Into the Lawn<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>2. Add Them to Vegetable Beds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>3. Make Leaf Mold<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>4. Mix Leaves \u2014 Shredded or Not \u2014 Into a Compost Pile Now, Where They\u2019ll Break Down Over Winter<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>5. Protect Outdoor Potted Plants<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houzz.com\/magazine\/5-ways-to-put-fall-leaves-to-work-in-your-garden-stsetivw-vs~18433959?fbclid=IwAR3fS8mmSlJOhmZnJS9vl-2ZqcuIFjerWaGQE5idkk-DodE00Qo5wX5NaDs\">Read full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Are Leaves Valuable to the Gardener? It\u2019s simple. When incorporated into soil, fall leaves: Add nutrients, including phosphorous and potassium Increase the soil\u2019s microbial life Boost its water-holding capacity &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/5-ways-to-put-fall-leaves-to-work-in-your-garden\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[414,415,18,222,412,417,418,57,14,416,7,376,8,9,25,413],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-advice","tag-autumn","tag-autumn-leaves","tag-diy","tag-fall","tag-fall-home-clean-up","tag-garden","tag-gardening","tag-home-advice","tag-houzz","tag-leaves","tag-monet-tyler","tag-monet-tyler-real-estate","tag-real-estate","tag-royal-lepage","tag-royal-lepage-west","tag-yardwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monettyler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}