By now, if you have saved any leaves that fell from your trees last fall, they will be mulch around your precious perennials or your tree trunks or your hard-hit-by-this-winter’s-freezing-spells evergreen shrubs, shrubs that may have given up the ghost. Luckily for me, the leaves I saved from November 2023 are not mulch, but instead are scans in my computer. Granted the leaf images are a little blurry here and there, but they’re still identifiable.
About raspberries
Oct 2022
If I understand this correctly, you want to give the bed a rest but don't leave it empty! By leaving soil empty you run the risk of weed seeds blowing in, topsoil blowing or washing away, and you waste the space and time that things could be working under the ground.
Oct 2022
SOIL HEALTH SERIES
SOIL – We walk on it; we grow things in it. But do we really understand and appreciate the magnificent living ecosystem below our feet? Healthy soil is essential to all life and over the next 12 weeks we will explore soil’s many hidden secrets!
Posters of the following soil topics are included as .pdf documents at the bottom of this page.