(Via Girl Gone Gardening)

Posted by admin to Dirt, Frost,, Winter, composting, expiriments, food, garden, leaves, mulch, neighborhood, photos, snow, spring, veggies, weather, weeds on 2007-11-14, 12:49:00

54*, 34% humidity, W 15 mph wind, cloudy With the rest of the week predicting freezing weather and possible snow, I KNEW my time has run out for puttering around in the garden. It was all business this morning for me. I got up first thing and drove around the neighborhood to leaf piles and loading up on them. I didn't have to go far before I hit the mother load of maple leaves. I brought them

(Via Girl Gone Gardening)

Posted by admin to To-Do, birds, chores, composting, food, leaves, mulch, seeds, trees, veggies, weeds on 2007-11-13, 20:22:00

To-Do Go ninja some leaves from nice piles in the neighborhood. (Maple for the veggie garden and flower beds, oak for the blueberries) (done) Ninja some mulch for the tree--there is an abandanded stash along one of the roads here. All I need is a little bit.... (Made my own mulch instead) Cut back remaining perennials--add leaves to the leaf piling on veggie beds (done) Clean bird feeder--and

(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to Eric Plaksin, Make, Own., Rachel Bynum, Virginia, Wary, Your, mulch, of on 2007-10-03, 20:00:00

We live in a world of phobias, but here's a new one: fear of mulch. And there's some basis for it.