Strooisellaag is the Dutch word for mulch. I just googled it! Whether it's a verb or noun, or both, as in English, I don't know.
Good suggestions here for making leaf mold, though it can take two years. Wormeries are good, and you don't even have to buy the worms, in the UK, we just set up a open-bottomed compost bin, and the worms turned up on their own. Just remember they don't like citrus, onions, garlic or chillies.
Here in Melbourne autumn is well under way, almost as if it was waiting for the clocks to go back. Lots of frantic planting while the soil is warm And a treat for me: I bought two black kangaroo paw plants. They're not always easy to find, but look so strange. They'll spend the winter in a big pot on the deck so I can look at them from the sofa in spring, lovely when the wattle birds hang off the stems to get at the nectar. This is the first really chilly evening of the year; heating on and curtains drawn. Already planning the making of a third veggie bed in the spring. 