Learn this one trick to make your own leaf mold, no compaction for five years, and your home flowers will burst into bloom

When growing flowers at home, whether potted flowering plants grow well and bloom abundantly has a great deal to do with soil and fertilizer. If the potting soil is compacted and has no nutrients, no flower will grow well no matter what you do. Leaf mold is the soil we use most often when growing flowers; it is loose, breathable and free-draining, and it contains humus, so it is especially fertile. Used for growing flowers, it gives vigorous growth and abundant blooms. So how do you make leaf mold yourself at home?

Methods and tips for making leaf mold at home

Making leaf mold yourself is very easy. The first method is to simply go out to the countryside and collect leaf mold. Where is there a lot of it? Generally there are woods; under tall trees there are usually lots of fallen leaves, and after accumulating year after year, the fallen leaves pile up more and more and ferment and decompose on their own.

You only need to bring a shovel and a small bucket, or a bag. In a place with lots of fallen leaves, push the leaves aside, and underneath is dark, fertile, soft, breathable leaf mold. Take it home, then give it a little sun exposure or scald it with boiling water, sprinkle on some carbendazim to disinfect and kill insects, and it can be used directly for growing flowers.

With this soil, you can use it for several years without adding any fertilizer, the potting soil is not prone to compaction, and the flowers and plants grow especially well.

If it is not convenient to go looking for leaf mold, you can also make leaf mold yourself at home. Usually in yards and residential compounds there are lots of fallen leaves or trimmed dry grass and the like; bag them up and bring them home.

Find an empty flower pot with a relatively large diameter, spread ordinary garden soil on the bottom layer, put in the dry grass, fallen leaves, and chopped kitchen fruit peels and vegetable leaves, and you can also add some crushed eggshells, then cover with soil, press it down firmly, water lightly, and put in a few earthworms to help with fermentation if you like.

After three or four months, open the pot again and the soil inside has turned deep black, soft, fertile leaf mold.

It is especially good used directly for growing flowers, and you do not even need to fertilize. The color is darker, and the soil is fine and nutritious.

You can grow whatever flowers you want, and the soil will not compact for years. The flowers and plants will shoot up and burst into bloom!