Annekin, "Healthy soils... could hold up to eight times more water than more depleted soils. And one of the ways to build #healthysoil structure was to let natural matter such as #leaves decompose into it and release #nutrients. Stripping away all the waste from a #garden, then buying #compost to #fertilise it, was counter intuitive."
‘Get rid of your green waste bin and let leaves rot into the #
soil,’ says garden expert | Gardens | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/29/get-rid-of-your-green-waste-bin-let-leaves-rot-into-soil-says-rhs-garden-expert