Amateur Gardening

Winter discoveries

SEEM to have had a lot of leaves this winter, and I got leaf-gatherers’ shoulder as a result – which hurt! Thankfully, I don’t gather up every leaf, only those near bulbs and choice woodlanders. They’re loaded into the barrow and emptied into the wooden leaf-litter bin. Two years later it turns into the most valuable garden mulch of all – crumbly dark leaf litter that I spread

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