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The Leap Floral blog is the beginning stage of what I hope to be my exciting, fun, and beautiful future. I hope you enjoy my musings on gardening, flowers, recipes and other stuff. The inspiration for the name of my future shop comes from my Aunt Nancy, her favorite saying is "leap and the net will appear." When I was surprised by a forced career change, I was freaked out, but she (and the rest of my wonderful family) explained that now was the best time to make my dream of being the owner of a great little shop come true. So, I took the leap and here it begins...




Saturday, November 20, 2010

Leaf me be!


I came back from a short vacation and it seems that every tree in the neighborhood put their leaves in my back yard. From patio edge to garden edge, as far as the eye can see, leaves.

Do I rake and bag?
Do I mow it into mulch?
Do I leave it for the spring?

It's like a choose your own adventure book.
I think I'll go with adventure three.

2 comments:

  1. It's too shitty out to actually rake! That's just crazy talk. I've been working for a while now on the "leave it till spring" option for my own yard....

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  2. It can be pretty hard on your grass, the whole, leaving it til spring approach. What you should do is rake them several times throughout the fall as they fall, aerate and overseed your lawn, then put down winter fertilzer. Hey, wait, I thought you were the one with the green thumb ...:) Bo

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