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- noun Alternative form of
leaf mold .
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Examples
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As autumn leaves fall, collect them up to make rich and crumbly leafmould, which is excellent for mulching shrubs, fruit trees and soft-fruit bushes; it also makes a good soil conditioner.
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I take simple pleasure in the thought that all those lovely yellow and orange leaves not many red this year are going to provide leafmould for the kitchen garden.
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Next she greesed the groove of her keel, warthes and wears and mole and itcher, with antifouling butter-scatch and turfentide and serpenthyme and with leafmould she ushered round prunella isles and eslats dun, quincecunct, allover her little mary.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"His name is Aldhelm," said Cadfael flatly, and rose from his knees, letting the soiled face sink back gently into the leafmould.
The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992
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Then another grabbed a handful of leafmould, damp and brown and full of fibre.
Waiting for Daylight 1915
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Give plants under trees a hand by enriching the soil with garden compost or leafmould.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Give plants under trees a hand by enriching the soil with garden compost or leafmould.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Also use garden compost or leafmould to mulch around newly planted or established plants.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Also use garden compost or leafmould to mulch around newly planted or established plants.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Clear away the debris first and it'll make collecting fallen leaves for leafmould so much quicker.
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