Re: Fall clean up: bare ground or leaves?
- Subject: Re: Fall clean up: bare ground or leaves?
- From: "Merri Morgan" m*@wcgnet.net
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:49:49 -0400
Donna, I scavenge fall leaves from town dwellers every year. I try to find
folks who have already bagged their leaves, but I have been known to rake
for leaves. My sandy soil can use all the leaves I can get.
Merri Morgan
Zone 5b, WV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna " <justme@prairieinet.net>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:01 AM
Subject: RE: Fall clean up: bare ground or leaves?
> I wish I had more leaves to worry about! Last year I used an extra layer
> with neighbors X-mas trees left out on the curb when we didn't get snow
> and constant weather temps changing....
>
> Honestly, how many other go around and take neighbors leaves to use in
> their garden... I do, since this is a new subdivision, (cornfield) so
> there are just not enough of them here yet.... but getting there.
>
> Interesting about the iris tho... I have mulched them for years and
> guessing I just got lucky!
>
> Donna
>
> ?
> >
> > I always ended up with a sludgy glunked slimy matted carpet of leaves
> in
> > the
> > Spring, so I bought one of those electric mulch/vac tools.
> > Now I mulch all those leaves and then put them back where they came
> from.
> > Seems to make for very happy plants in the Spring and lots of worms.
> >
> > Scenic Lake Norman, North Carolina USA
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:01:01 -0500, some mardy inna cardy wrote:
> >
> > >What is the general concensus on fall clean up - leave the leaves
> or
> > >bare ground?
> >
> > Definitely bare ground for iris beds at least-if you don't want iris
> > borers, that is. They breed in the debris.
>
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