Ink & Penstemon
Observations on plants and gardening from the Great Basin steppe in the American West.
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Leaf disposal. Rake them straight onto the beds. Mound them up high. It may look lazy; you may be worried about burying all those plants in leaves. Don’t be anxious. Come winter snows, all those leaves will be mashed flat to the ground and be soaked into mush where worms and decomposers work them into the soil all next spring and summer. If you have a mulcher mower, mow all those leaves directly into the grass. If you still insist that you like things looking tidy, consider this: the Salt Lake City landfill collected 6.5 million pounds of leaves last year. That’s a lot of humus hauled off to the dump. Do your part and pile your leaves high.
