If you saved your leaves from fall, DON’T add them to your raised bed until you watch this!👆#compost
YouTube gardening tutorial (Nicole Johnsey Burke) advising how to use fallen leaves when filling a new raised bed. The speaker warns against simply dumping loose leaves because uncompressed, dry leaf layers cause rapid soil level subsidence; instead she instructs to lay leaves in ~15 cm layers, compress and moisten each layer, repeat until ~20–25 cm of space remains, then top with a mix of topsoil, sand, and compost. The method reduces early-season sinking and was used successfully by the creator last autumn (see caption for more).
Questions this video answers
About 15 cm per layer.
About 20–25 cm remaining.
Topsoil (Muttererde), sand, and compost.
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