The five vegetable raised beds either have something growing in them, or a soil "therapeutic" cover crip (mustard), or will soon (winter onions). I still want to add leaf compost to them, but this time it will have to be as they do in UK, by making leaf mould. Leaf mould is made by storing wet leaves in large leaf bags, letting them moulder for a season into something like an intermediate stage between compost and peat moss. It's a fungal dominated process instead of bacterial (whatever that indicates). I still have some large areas that need a thick tree leaf mulch but there is also make a bag of leaf mould for each raised bed.
The truckload made five big bags of leaves. I tied the tops and laid them in an out of the way, out of direct sun. Various sources state it will take six months to a year to become leaf mould. I'm in it for the long haul. One thing that's great about using these leaves, is I don't think they carry any vegetable plant diseases or parasites. Just healthy humus.
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