Re: leaves and winterizing
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- Subject: Re: leaves and winterizing
- From: "* T* <m*@clark.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 04:53:18 -0400
I agree, Bill...I do enough bitching about just getting them off paths and
driveway - sorting is totally out of the question.
IMO Mother Nature puts down that blanket of leaves to enrich the soil. Any
plant in the soil is gonna be exposed to any fungi going. Either they will
make it or not and leaves aren't going to determine this. Any leaves
that fall on my beds and borders stay there for the winter - if I tried to
get them off, that's all I'd do with my time. I do watch and remove those
that are trying to smother plants who overwinter a green rosette of foliage
or are evergreen and small. In spring, I rake off the excess (I have a
*lot* of leaves ), but leave them as mulch around shrubs and large plants.
Leaves are free mulch and fertilizer...only the labor involved in
rearranging them to suit.
Shredded are ever so much nicer, but with all the trees I have dumping tons
of leaves it's not a possibility.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Blee811@aol.com
> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 12:13 PM
>
> In a message dated 9/15/98 11:40:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> dmartin@post.its.mcw.edu writes:
>
> << You don't use English or American walnut leaves though, do you? I
don't.
> >>
>
> I've included black walnut leaves and the leaf stems in my shredded
leaves for
> many years and never noticed any untoward effects. The alternative of
sorting
> the fallen leaves leaves me cold.
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