If you start at the bottom, you can use leaves, straw, paper bags, newspaper, reeds, wood chips, ect. And build up the sides as you fill in the beds. I used hardware cloth lined with cardboard in mine along with reeds near the top.
Use them in a chicken run so they can hide from hawks, stick one in the ground and plant green beans or squash under it in the spring, use them to stop erosion
I use a brush torch to toast them up in the driveway then crush and give it to the chickens. I heard you can make calcium acitate by leaving egg shells in vinegar.
I have only been fixing soil for like three years but for me it’s keeping soil covered and leaving it alone. I don’t have time to actively compost stuff so there’s allot of just throwing stuff on the ground and leaving it. I get better luck growing things in places that I leave alone than I do if I intentionally mess with the soil.
You can use the leaves either in the bag or not to fill in ditches and low spots on the land. The bagged leaves can act as sand bags to help with erosion or make a makeshift swale with them. I used leaves for my chicken run. I wonder if they can be mixed with concrete to make things.
If it’s mild I do fingerless wool gloves with fingerless leather work gloves over them. If it’s cold, same thing but with fingers. I even waxed the leather to make it more water resistant.
