Senility of leaves-- Clean and green

Past few weeks i was  worried about one thing in the  farm, the older leaves started  drying off .. initially i thought it was leaf scorching  or may be it was some sort of disease i didn't know,  but apart from dying leaves, all the the  younger leaves which were coming up were healthy and fine and showed absolutely no issues.  That's when i learnt that its normal senility of leaves and that its  normal for a plant to shed the old leaves by drying up. But what is important is that  you should get rid of that old and dead leaves so as to avoid fungal  growth and bacterial infection. Make sure to pull off all the dead and rotten leaves and along with that pull off the leaves that are half dried and are pluckable. This will give the plant and the soil more breathing space. And more over cleaning  all these leaves will make the  farm look healthy and green.

Boy !! that was one tideous job to attend to each and every  plants and  check for the drying up leaves pull them out and clean up the plant.  It took loads of extra workers and couple of days to finish the 1st round of cleaning process ... and i got almost a tractor load  of dump i guess..  i have made arrangements to make use of this farm waste and convert it into compost and reuse in the farm. Vermicomposting is  totally new thing to me and i will have to experiment and learn the  trick of doing it

A dump of the dead and aged leaves of Gerbera Farm while clean up session.