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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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OllyW Nov 2011 9:56pm, 12 Nov 2011 5,261 posts	Quote Pin OllyW Having moved out of our house in August to enable some pretty extensive building work to be done, I find my lawn needs both a mow and a repair. I shall be holding out til spring. This is a shame as I now have both an outside power supply and taps
OllyW Nov 2011 9:57pm, 12 Nov 2011 5,262 posts	Quote Pin OllyW ...also, building work has killed off two of my favoured bamboos seems they don't like brick dust...
GregP Dec 2011 3:41pm, 9 Dec 2011 55,119 posts	Quote Pin GregP GW Christmas Special tonight at 21.00
RuthB2 Dec 2011 3:49pm, 9 Dec 2011 9,590 posts	Quote Pin RuthB2 I've raked up a huge amount of dead leaves from the lawn - is there anything I can do with them apart from throw them away?
rockin around the bigleggy Dec 2011 3:54pm, 9 Dec 2011 3,439 posts	Quote Pin rockin around the bigleggy Compost em Ruth - the worms' ll love em
RuthB2 Dec 2011 3:57pm, 9 Dec 2011 9,591 posts	Quote Pin RuthB2 There are a fair few of them though...
GregP Dec 2011 3:59pm, 9 Dec 2011 55,120 posts	Quote Pin GregP Big dustbin bag. Make holes in it - and water the leaves on a regular basis.
Pesto-myrrh-m Dec 2011 4:05pm, 9 Dec 2011 12,210 posts	Quote Pin Pesto-myrrh-m It takes years to make leaf mould that's useable. Can you burn any?
GregP Dec 2011 4:27pm, 9 Dec 2011 55,121 posts	Quote Pin GregP Takes less time, massively less, if you remember to keep them damp.
TooLilac Jan 2012 7:09pm, 2 Jan 2012 1,352 posts	Quote Pin TooLilac the new seed catalogues have arrived ! how exciting ! time to start planning whcih veg to grow for the year. Am planning some new raised beds, and a new chicken house with a WIR (there might even be room for a few extra hens...)