Re: Trilliums ?

Be careful with all the oak leaves.  At our former
summer home, it was engulfed in oak trees.  One year I
thought it might help if I ran the lawnmower thru them
and mulched the bulk of them. Somewhere my brain
thought - hey,if I mulch them, it would improve the
soil and maybe some would blow away.... nah, just
smothered the grass to death by the time I got back
the next weekend. Still had to rake it up, but made it
more difficult to burn them. Ever try to rake up 2
plus acres of solid oak leaves.... Yuck!

Anyways, I did have to add lime to the soil (read
sand) to be able to grow anything there.

Donna



--- "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
wrote:

> > Do you "plant" your kitchen mulch in your beds?  I
> found it is a pretty
> > fast way to get the clay broken up.  
> 
> I've been chopping oak leaves into little pieces
> using a leaf shredder and
> then lightly turning them into the soil.  :)
> 
> There's a BIG oak tree in my backyard, so I have
> plenty of leaves...  
> 
> Chris
> 
>
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