Mulching Time Is Here!  

Since our trees are different down here in the south we don't have all those fallen leaves like up north. Right now we just have a few leaves turning and falling off and all the other are green. One of our trees still had a few leaves on it when spring come around. So no, our leaves are not used as mulch.

I also heard that using whole leaves are not good.so I use the leaves that are cut up after I cut it with the mower..Some leaves are raked down to the curb for the truck to come by. And I still have enough to go around my trees and compost, so I guess I do a little of everything..

My neighbor does my yard and if one leaf falls off he is out there scooping it up! It's nice to have the yard cleaned up but he goes way overboard!

Yup, all those leaves will make good mulch. Don't they break down and make nitrogen into the soil? Isn't that the purpose of mulch? I'm not a gardener Grandpa.

some of them i do,but there's just too many.
our neighbor's gigantic trees drop their load into my yard instead of theirs,so i have mine + theirs to deal with.i do keep a good amount of it though.

Hi GRANDPA BOB,


No, my husband is not a gardening type at all and I cannot manage it as I am disable and cannot do it on my own so we don't. My garden is a low maintance garden and mostly have pot plants in it and boarder shrubs. I do try to put some leaves in some areas of the garden which have earth,


Tamara

The leaves in my yard are usually piled 4' high on top of my perennials, layered into the garden, and then any left gets chopped up with the mulcher mower to fertilize the lawn.

I have used leaves as mulch several times.It is great to use it even when planting to use in the potting mix. I haven't used it as mulch in a few years though. I need to cause my yearly flowers were looking a mighty peaked this year. I also usually use a fertilizer but this year I didn't get to mess with m garden and flowers as much as I did in the past.

No I do not use the fallen leaves as mulch, although I could as I have enough leaves in the garden. We have two huge trees in our garden and a smaller one too, but we just sweep them up and put them out for the bin men in the special bags that they provide.

Hi Grandpa B,


I may be doing thsi after reading your post..LOL! This time, I am not doing anything since it's been very cold outside and I even don't like to go out but you remind me about starting the soil get better for the next gardening season! LOL!