The neighbors have generously been giving me their leaves from their yards, so I’ve put them to use. I dumped several barrels of leaves over the various large starter logs, and in the process of locking down the leaves with sticks from my stick pile, ended up using all of the material I saved from the two willow trees I cut down in April.
The rainy season is really helping the beds collect moisture and break down leaves.
This is the largest “small scale bed.” It has various types of leaves on it: fig leaves, oak leaves, and other deciduous.
Second small hugelkultur bed. Not sure what I’ll plant on here — shade-loving food, most likely.
On my raised beds I dumped lots of leaves and weighed them down with branches. I’ll add more cedar board along the sides to continue to raise the height.
Adding materials to the original stretch of garden bed. I hope this improvement will also help slow and collect rain as it goes down the slope.
Blueberry and serviceberry get some leaf layers. Will this finally be the end of the aggressive bulb flowers? We’ll see.
The Tomato Bed. Let’s see if the leaf layers protect these monsters and maybe they’ll come back in the spring!
Where I pulled up landscaping fabric I put down tons of leaves. This should make for really excellent soil in a few months. Throwing on some branches to keep all the leaves from blowing away seems to work. I also started a small leaf/stick pile around the base of this tree to start preserving moisture over the long term.
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