Re: CULT: fall cleanup
- Subject: Re: CULT: fall cleanup
- From: J* I* J*
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:12:29 -0800
From: John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>
J.F. Hensler wrote:
>
> Not being one to use time and energy needlessly, she trims her TBs using a weed whacker (nylon filament type) then simply rakes up the debris.
>
> This sounds almost too easy. Has anyone else tried this?
If you are not in a hard freeze area, is it necessary, or desireable at all,
to cut back the foliage? Here in temperate Bay area of California, I leave all
the leaves that don't brown out on the plant to get what food production out
of them that the weather allows.
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