Fallen leaves rich source of plant nutrients

 
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Published: November 10, 2008

About this time every year, homeowners head out to their yards to rake up all the fallen leaves, bag them and leave them at the curb for the trash truck to haul away.

Samantha Snyder , Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service educator, says you might as well wad up $100 bills and add them to the bags of leaves.

Fall leaves are among the most valuable resources to be found in the landscape, she writes in her a...


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