Had a day off today and spent some time clearing ash tree leaves from the concrete path and the concrete at the bottom of the garden for the leaf mould bin (a large, old birdcage someone had dumped by a lamppost several years ago).
All the leaves on the long flower bed and the vegetable plot I left. It is cover for the soil over winter and saves two lots of carting, to the leaf mould bin and then back on to the beds. This left-where-it-fell leaf mould is all the fertiliser the flower bed gets!
I notice how leaves just left where they lie on the soil rot down much, much quicker than piles of leaves.
I then went to the end of the road and collected several buckets of sycamore leaves for the bed in the front garden. This is for hibernating animals - a couple of autumns ago I saw a large toad, so I want plenty of insulation for her if she is still returning to spend the winter in my front garden.
Pleased to see no sign of ash die back in my neighbours' ash trees - long may that continue.
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