Re: Trilliums ? NOW Oak Leaves

I have a lot of oak leaves, too. I also have Magnolia grandiflora. I have used a mulching mower for the nine years I've lived in my house, and I am the only person in town whose "pasture" is lush. My yard doesn't burn up until August. <LOL> My mower even mulches the magnolia leaves.
zem
zone 7
West TN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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