Property News · December 1, 2023

If you do just one gardening job this winter, make some leaf mould


Rake up those wet autumn leaves and let them decompose – it’s a free and easy way to enrich your soilI moved from a city flat to the countryside as autumn was turning to winter and, unfamiliar with my first garden, was at loss as to what to do. I didn’t know what many of the plants were or what they needed from me, so I resigned myself to a quiet first winter, watching and waiting until spring, when the plants would start emerging again.I did give myself one task though, and it’s one well worth doing if you have limited energy for gardening in winter: sweeping the leaves that fell off our willow tree and turning them into leaf mould. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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