leafette's Blog

Very Windy!  And this is par for the course.  Wish we had a good shelter belt to the west.  We did try.  The lilacs towards the north are very short.  The  ashes which are straight west are struggling and once again we are trying to get willows further to the south end.  I did manage to root some willow cuttings and  in an 'aha' moment shared with my farmer that perhaps we should pot them up and dig  them into the garden for the winter.    Kinda give them a fighting chance.    The trees around the yard drop their leaves but the wind sweeps them away pretty quick.  Hmm, and I'd read such good things about leaf mulch!   Perhaps I should give up on compost and try to catch leaves for those two bins.  But the wind seems to be drying things quite a bit and that would enable me to dig more dandelions out of the beds.  The grass is all cut and after reading up on the pros and cons decided having it short over winter was the best idea.

But that is enough from this old wind bag.  Time to grab the to-do list and rush off myself!