"Self Seeded" Flowerbed -- Fall Cleanup

I rake a good layer of leaves onto those beds as mulch.

each variety of flower may have their own preferences as to if they would like leaf cover or not, some may do ok with bare dirt, some need slightly disturbed soils, some want a mulch, etc.

songbird

I've got a number of plants that come back every year from seeds. I keep the property neat with a backpack blower. I think the plants spread so many seeds I don't have to worry about blowing the seeds around.

Yes and right about now if dry, crumble them up and drop back in. Nature's mulch. BTW, depends on growth zone. May have butterfly cocoons still in some areas.

Hi, I m Carol, rare new person to a group. Awesome amount of spam to 'bozo bin'.

I have about 30 "people" on my plonk list for this group.

No wonder! I'm going to move it now to my regular prossessing site. They share the same bozobin so that will carry over. Header will change to cshenk then. (first initial and truncated last name). I'll ask songbird to come back in. He's the one who recommeded the group.

Ok, back on main group set.

this group gets so little traffic now that it's rare to see on topic posts, but if it picks up again i'll reply.

i spend a lot more time reading/writing to the edibles group instead since that seems to be more of the focus of my gardening these days.

songbird

Of the clearly human posts on it, this newsgroup is the one with the thinnest rubbish horizon compared to the rest of the soil profile of Usenet.

I d> cshenk wrote:

Try garden planning?

I'm looking at 1 fig tree to join my 3 cherry and 2 apple trees. Poosbly a 3rd apple tree (pink Lady) which cross pollenates with my Granny Smith (whi also cross pollenates with the Golden Delicious.

I live in Virginia Beach so not many red types of apples grow here. That's ok. I like mine just fine as well as the neighborhood kids who know it's fine to pick a few of the biggest ones for school lunch on their way to school.