Fall Clean Up

Well it was a busy day at the woodland garden. When I first arrived I was greeted by natures fall bounty!

As you can see there are a lot of leaves to be cleaned up but it is a necessary evil when you have a lot of trees on your property.

It is important to get the leaves up before the snow can pack then down. This will cause disease problems as well as provide places for garden pests to over winter.

The time spent now will make for a much easier cleanup in the spring and get your garden of to a great start!

Of course once you have cleaned all the leaves off there is another consideration . What do you do with all the leaves? Normally I would burn the leaves in the fire pit then spread the ashes around the property to help build the soil up but as I did not have enough time I moved them all to the front of the property so they could be picked up by the leaf vacumn offered by the association to property owners.

It was a pretty big task and took most of the day to get it clean. I do love the smell of burning leaves so next weekend when I go out to the woodland garden I will find some time to start a fire and burn what remaining leaves came off the trees this week.

The only other tasks left for bedding the woodland garden down for fall is to cut back all the perennials and clean the beds. I also have a few tulip bulbs left over which I want to plant as well and should have enough time for them to get settled in before the weather get too cold.

Even though the woodland garden is bedding down for the winter I will be very busy at the urban garden and should be doing some more post on that shortly.

In the means time I am getting all the road salt and calcium chloride in for the winter at the urban garden as well as getting all the snow removal equipment prepared and ready. So I will be around here a lot once things slow down a bit

Have A Great Week!