Lawn Leaves | Spring Ease
Fall is called “Fall” for a reason I guess. Everything falls off by January — including leaves. Fall leaves can be beautiful as they inspire us of the arrival of Autumn. After they show their splendor, it’s time to clean up the mess. Fallen leaves can be annoying, dangerous, but also very helpful to your landscape.
FACT: Leaves—including pine needles- that have fallen onto a lawn that you have worked at all summer can “smother” your grass and be a breeding ground for fungus, and other diseases, especially if the tree who shed had a particular disease, and if the leaves stay wet. However, this “pile up” of leaves is helpful if you are trying to create a new bed– just pile them on your new bed area or make your compost pile and let them decay into helpful mulch. Decaying healthy leaves make a great organic compost for Spring planting. TIP: Apply about 1 lb of our 12.6.6 Fertilizer to fallen leaves mixed with our Faford 3-B Professional Nursery grade Potting Soil (layers of 6” of fallen leaves to 3” of good soil). This makes an excellent compost for Spring planting.
TIP: Remove leaves from your water gardens for your fish. Decaying leaves can rob the oxygen from the fish.
Winterize Your Lawn Equipment
Mowers, gas edgers and gas blowers need to be stored and a fuel stabilizer added or fuel drained after your last use to prevent corrosion and/or freeze damage that can halt your Spring time fever to get in the garden on a sunny day.
Mulching
If you don’t prepare or do your own from fallen leaves or pine needles, now is the time to prepare to mulch over your flower beds and protect your plants from the cold nights to come. Although our winters our mild, some nights do get cold enough to damage and even kill some “tender” perennials & sometimes even young, newly planted shrubs. With the appropriate amount of mulch — straw, pine bark nuggets, cypress mulch — you can prevent plant damage for the winter. We sell mulch by the cubic yard.
INFO: 1 Cubic Yard = 27 cubic ft. Our Cubic Yard Scoop bucket will cover 100 square feet at 3” depth (the industry standard). CALL TODAY FOR YOUR BULK DELIVERY OF MULCH…..
