{"id":62736,"date":"2022-05-25T07:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62736"},"modified":"2022-05-25T07:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:11:18","slug":"reduce-waste-how-to-make-the-most-of-your-autumn-leaves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62736","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Waste: How To Make The Most Of Your Autumn Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The end of the summer garden is always bittersweet for me. I miss my daily fresh cut lettuce but I also love the falling leaves and bright reds and oranges of autumn. Luckily, those fallen leaves are more than just pleasing to look at. In this helpful guide, we\u2019ll walk you through a few easy ways to use your fallen autumn leaves as a zero waste and cheaper options around your place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The end of the summer garden is always bittersweet for me.\u00a0 I miss my daily fresh cut lettuce but I also love the falling leaves and bright reds and oranges of autumn. Luckily, those fallen leaves are more than just pleasing to look at.\u00a0 In this helpful guide, we\u2019ll walk you through a few easy ways to use your fallen autumn leaves as zero waste and cheaper options around your\u00a0place.<\/p>\n

One of the best sustainable and organic ways to help prepare your garden is to add a mulch, and the beautiful fallen leaves of autumn are a great way to this.\u00a0\u00a0According to\u00a0<\/a>Ready Nutrition<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0in the gardening community, leaves are\u00a0huge<\/em>.\u00a0 When they are composted they become known as \u201cblack gold,\u201d\u00a0a nutrient-rich material that can be used in a multitude of ways in the garden.<\/p>\n

The life cycle of a leaf begins when a tree makes its leaves in the spring. The tree concentrates all of its energy and\u00a0nutrients into making the leaves because the\u00a0more\u00a0leaves there are, the more photosynthesis can occur.<\/a>\u00a0 When the leaves drop in autumn, they create a ground cover for the trees to conserve moisture.\u00a0\u00a0As the leaves decompose, they provide the tree with nutrients and resupply the depleted soil with microbes…<\/p>\n

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Reduce Waste: How To Make The Most Of Your Autumn Leaves The end of the summer garden is always bittersweet for me. I miss my daily fresh cut lettuce but I also love the falling leaves and bright reds and oranges of autumn. Luckily, those fallen leaves are more than just pleasing to look at. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32918,9427,22175,6787,20441,1091],"class_list":["post-62736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-autumn","tag-composting","tag-leaves","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-sara-tipton","tag-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62737,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62736\/revisions\/62737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}