leaf mold

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I've got three ingredients in my potting compost: one-third compost, one-third rotten down leaf mold, and one-third loam that I've got from molehills in my field is perfect.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022

I like to use purchased composted leaf mold and aged manure, which, in my experience, are reliably free of weed seeds.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2021

We’re used to adding organic matter in the form of compost, leaf mold, peat moss or some similar amendment to make the soil loamier, but in older times a pasture was often the source.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2015

If you have soil with lots of sand or clay, you can improve it by adding organic matter such as peat, leaf mold, or composted manure.

From Southern Living • May 19, 2010

From time to time one or another would begin to scrape in the gravelly bank, or venture a little way in among the trees and nut bushes to scuffle in the leaf mold.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams