There he went down on one knee to examine the thick leaf mold.

For example, leaf mold is more common in the fall.

I jerked up, gasping for breath, shaking leaf mold out of my eyes.

He was lying on a bed of leaf mold under a thick bush.

The scent of leaf mold clung to his hands and clothes.

He reached down for the hasp which barely projected from the leaf mold.

Ned looked to where his boot had scored the leaf mold.

Worms were thick in the leaf mold near the stream.

As a result there is a ready supply of leaf mold, humus, organic matter or whatever you might want to call it.

She could smell the leaf mold and the fragrance of night- blooming flowers.