That someone might as well be me. Make the Soil Water-retentive The most important of these ingredient is the dried leaves. They contain the trace minerals which have been leached from the topsoil by unnecessary watering. The tree roots reach down into the subsoil to bring them up again. By adding them to the soil, we return to it what cannot be added by any other method.
Leaves give the soil more bulk than any other compostable matter.
It is this bulk which makes the soil water-retentive. This characteristic gives the soil the ability to survive floods as well as droughts. During a flood, the water soaks in and is held through a drought. All Types of Soil Whether we have sand or clay soil, it needs to gain bulk in order to hold the water from the flood to the drought. Sandy soil without bulk will dry out immediately after a rain.