#leaf mould

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Wintering The Garden

As the days are getting colder and colder, and it is frequently freezing at night, Wintering The Garden becomes essential, if you want to see it beautifully abloom come Spring. Now is the ideal time to feed and enrich your soil, too; next year's harvest will reward your efforts!

Leaf Mould 

Lasagna Garden (Update One) (Update Two) (Update Three) (Update Four)

Wintering Camellias 

Mulching 

Wintering Geraniums 

Pruning Fruit Trees 

Pruning Hydrangeas 

Wintering Peonies 

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Video description: 1 minute of me talking about the love of my life, leaf mould

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Free mulch!

A lot of places around here shove all their mulched leaves into MASSIVE piles halfway into the street, where they lay for months and make a great big, slippery mess when the first snow comes in.

So! We loaded up two cartfuls and barely made a dent in the massive pile, and hopefully we can go back for more tomorrow!

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Gardening: Leaf Mould

Making Leaf Mould, sometimes referred to as "gardeners' gold", is the easiest thing. All you need is a good rake, and patience (something gardening teaches you, anyway!) And then, fungi will do the work of decomposing and breaking down fallen tree leaves into a rich, dark brown mixture that's wonderful for Mulching and feed you plants and sows good nutrients.

There is one job you have to do, though! On a crisp rather than sodden day in late Autumn or early Winter, arm yourself with a rake, and gather fallen leaves into heaps in your garden.

Fill large bags --garden sacks or Ikea shopping bags, which work very well- with Autumn leaves. The bags shoudn't be packed as the air needs to circulate to allow fungi to develop.

Place the bag in a hidden spot if you prefer, but not sheltered from the rain and elements, and wait.

After a year, perhaps earlier depending on which tree the leaves came from, some take longer to decompose, you should have a beautifully rich and dark Leaf Mould.

Scoop it into large basins or buckets, and allow to dry in a garden shed or garage if it has rained a lot and it is wet.

Then, your Leaf Mould is ready to use, to feed your soil before sowing seeds or planting seeds, to amend it once your vegetables are growing, or to use as Mulching /to protect your budding tulip bulbs on a cold ad snowy day like today! Happy gardening, friends!

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Talking to an online friend today she told me shoveling snow was more fun than raking leaves and I said

"Raking leaves is great because you get a huge boost for your compost!"

and anyway that's how I got reminded that some people bag up their leaves in plastic and throw them in landfill like a PSYCHOPATH

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Leaf mould time! Has it been a year already?

Leaf mould is an amazing additive to your garden but it takes a while to create. Here's how last year's batch turned out.

It’s time to think about making leaf mould again with this year’s fallen leaves. I thought I’d show you what happened to last year’s drumful. A year ago, the drum was packed to the brim with shredded, fallen leaves, moistened and left alone in a shady place under the Mandarin tree. You can find out how I prepared the leaves last year in this post. The pic above shows the drum with lots of holes…

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Today’s mushrooms.

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Half a pant.