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Gardening

Curmudgeoness

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6. Well, good luck with the roses.

Reply to IrishAyes (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 11, 2013, 09:00 PM

Nov 2013

I don't try to grow anything that needs babying, but that is because I am lazy. I love gardens and flowers and vegetables, but there are things that I just don't grow because of the trouble. It is a sink or swim attitude I have when I plant something new. I have one rose bush, and it cannot be killed.

I don't burn my leaves, I mulch them with the lawn mower, gather them up with the lawn mower, and augment the garden soil with it. Of course, we are not allowed to burn leaves in town, so that isn't an option. But I don't think that I would anyway. It works well for me the way I do it.

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Question about leaf ash fertilizer [View all] IrishAyes Nov 2013 OP

At most I would think you just have a little carbon left, all the volatile stuff jtuck004 Nov 2013 #1

Why not use the leaves unburnt? roody Nov 2013 #2

The ones my neighbor offered me were already burnt. IrishAyes Nov 2013 #4

I wouldn't think that anything toxic would be left Curmudgeoness Nov 2013 #3

Sounds good to me, but I needed to hear a trusted source second the motion before trying it. IrishAyes Nov 2013 #5

Well, good luck with the roses. Curmudgeoness Nov 2013 #6

Different strokes! IrishAyes Nov 2013 #7