"Fall Cleanup" is a WASTE of time!
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2023
- In native plant gardens, the best thing you can do in the fall is NOTHING! Leave the leaves, leave your plants up, it helps birds, bees, and soil life.
Instead of cutting back my habitat, I'm making a pumpkin pie
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"No one has the perfect answer" I think that's a great attitude. One suggestion for the Fall Cleanup is perhaps planting a few evergreens among the perennial bed to have some colour, structure during the winter.
What's worse is when you see perfectly healthy flowers and perennials that are slowly wilting (but still have nice flowers) suddenly get all cut at the same time. It makes the transition from fall to winter so much more depressing!
So true! 😝
Hey Lisa, good morning, your videos are getting so good!!!
Sorry -- you lost me when you started cubing up the butter. I didn't hear half of what you said. Now I have to watch again.... 😂🥰
thank you for including using leaves in the garden as mulch as 'leaving the leaves'
I have several neighbors that choose to rake up their leaves for lawn health, but instead of hauling them off they give them to me to spread on my garden beds.
Yes! That's such a good use of the leaves! I'm sure the birds and butterflies love your garden! Thanks for watching! 🌱🌱🌱
absolutely hate it when they rip out plants growing in public.
Mulching lawnmowers leave the leaves. The neighbors and city are happy.
That's one way to do it!
I'm starting my first garden so I needed the fall leaves for mulch and compost😅. Maybe in a few years I'll "leave the leaves" because if things go according to plan my entire space will be mulch or plants so I won't be able to rake leaves at that point anyway!
That's a fantastic use of leaves! The ones used as mulch will probably be really helpful to the little buggos over winter. Thanks for watching.
Very witty. The pie was a brilliant idea. I leave the leaves. How do you manage all the maple seedlings? I hand pull.
Thanks so much, I'm glad you liked the video! I also hand pull the maple seedlings. Hundreds every year. I don't even have a maple 🥹🌱🌱🌱(i get leaves from my neighbors maple and a nearby red oak)
Hi, new to your channel. Searching for native plant information. I’m enjoying your content.
We have mature Sycamore trees and as many know, they have lots of leaves. I usually “leaf “ them on the ground, but recently have been moving them to our vegetable garden area then mowing over them to help them breakdown faster for compost.
I must consider if its good practice. Seems to build soil.
North central Texas zone 8-b
Thanks for the videos :)
Using leaves as mulch is a great use of leaves. Leaving them whole is best but that's not always easy. For example, maple leaves decompose quickly and can usually be placed whole as mulch. Oak leaves take a long time and it might be harder to wait another year for them to break down. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching! 🌱🌱🌱
@@lisalikesplants thanks for responding. Yes it is helpful. I’ll reassess a few things I’m doing. I just recently discovered sycamore moths among some leaves,( rather the Caterpillars) seems they can harm the trees, but fortunately we have mockingbirds nesting in the trees. So goes the food chain.. :) thank you, Take care.
Can you do a spring cleanup?
I do a careful and selective cutback, and I wait as long as I can. Some plants leave too much dead material and it lays over the ground, (palm sedge) choking out the other plants, so those get cut back.