Using leaf mold this way easily causes compaction and root rot, and no flower will survive

In the process of growing flowers, watering, light, fertilizing and soil are all indispensable. There is a lot of knowledge in this. If you do not water well, leaves easily turn yellow; if the light is unsuitable or fertilizing is improper, the flowers will still die. And soil is also crucial. To grow flowers, first grow the roots. Whether the root system grows well depends entirely on the value of the nutrient soil.

Now more and more people are growing flowers, and many flower lovers have also mastered the method of mixing nutrient soil. Leaf mold is used more often, after all, leaf mold is very loose and fertile, and contains humus, which is beneficial to the growth of potted flowers. But did you know? If leaf mold is not used well, it will still compact! Once the potting soil compacts, root rot and yellow leaves will follow.

1. Often burying chemical fertilizer into leaf mold makes the potting soil very easy to compact and form clumps

Chemical fertilizer is a good thing for crops, but for potted flowers it is not necessarily so. Because chemical fertilizer belongs to inorganic fertilizer, if it is often used for growing flowers and buried in the potting soil, even particularly loose leaf mold will become compacted, and even so hard that a shovel cannot move it. In the past, many flower lovers left comments saying they did not believe in the effects of organic fertilizers such as barnyard manure and soybeans, and firmly believed that only chemical fertilizer worked. As a result, after using it no more than twice, the potting soil hardened into clumps. When repotting, even the roots could not be pulled out.

2. If you do not repot for one or two years, leaf mold easily dries out and shrivels, all nutrients are gone, and compaction speeds up

Lazy people cannot grow potted flowers well, and this saying is not false at all. If you do not repot and change the soil for flowers and plants for a long time, it will easily lead to the loss of nutrients in the soil, and even cause it to dry out and shrivel. Over time, the potting soil will compact into a single mass. And most importantly, the root system of the flowers cannot absorb nutrients, which naturally also leads to weak root growth and even rot.

Leaf mold is originally a very easy-to-use all-purpose soil for growing flowers. Because it is formed from some fallen leaves and branches after long-term accumulation in a humid environment, it contains a large amount of humus, and also some active substances and trace elements. Using it to grow flowers works better than those special flower soils on the flower market. Therefore, it is also the favorite of flower lovers, and anything can survive when grown in it.

But if you often grow flowers according to the two methods mentioned above, the value of leaf mold will be greatly reduced, and truly no flower will be grown well. So in the future when growing flowers, flower lovers must pay attention to this.

In fact, if you use leaf mold to grow flowers, you do not need to fertilize much within half a year. After all, it is very loose and fertile inside. Of course, if you feel the fertilizer effect is not high, you can add a little eggshell or sun-exposed barnyard manure when making leaf mold. Soil like this will definitely make any flower grow more and more vigorously.

That is all for sharing the knowledge about leaf mold. Thank you for reading!

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