Saturday, November 1, 2008

Leaf it to beaver



Gosh, I can't believe it's November. I don't mean the calendar, but the weather! It is beautiful! Blue skies. Temps near 60. Great incentive to harvest some leaves to feed the new garden ring. I wanted to title this post to indicate that I was feeding the chopped up leaves to helpful earthworms so the they can in turn enrich the soil with their castings. But the brief title of Feeding ring worms just didn't strike the right tone I was looking for. ;-) *urg*

Using the free Photobucket site , I was able to create a nifty slideshow banner for this post. Why talk when you can say it with pictures? I've dug leaves into two-thirds of the ring, but my neighbor still has to finish tilling the other third so it is as deep(?) as the rest of the garden.

A lot of leaves are down, but there is still a lot more to come. Good thing I've got the mower this year. Not only will I be 'harvesting' my leaves to work into the raw ring bed, but I'm going to build a monster compost pile in addition to my 'regular' compost piles. I'm thinking it will take a years of adding organic matter to the ring garden to bring the soil up to snuff. (As for the Roman road - those rocks are there to stay. I'm getting too old for that kind of digging! Hail Caesar!)

More garden buzz soon!

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