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The compost bins were filled up this Fall.  Sort-of.  Or...I suppose it is better to say that they were filled up *partially*.   The last time I checked-in on the bins was in August of 2025 .  At that time, I mentioned that I still needed to 'turn' the bins over for the season.  However...I never was able to get to that job this Summer/Fall.  I also have - either through sheer laziness or genuine desire to improve the soil conditions - been adopting (to a greater degree than in the past) the whole 'leave the leaves' mentality to Fall cleanup.  Combine that approach with the super-early and heavy snowfall we had that cut Fall short, there are still tons of brown leaves scattered in our beds and on our lawn.   Despite that, when I look at the photo of the bins below, I see plenty of leaves that I piled in this season.  Both in the holding bin on the left and the mixed bin in the middle.  That comes back to the lack-of-turning tha...

Yesterday, I posted a look at my first ever (small) Wattle Fence that I put up in my new (as of this Fall) stumpery garden in the back .  In that post, I talked about the idea of "Garden Vignettes" and how they draw the visitor in towards certain spots in the garden and allow the gardener to show a bit of their personality.    The stumpery allows for a little personality.  The Wattle Fence, too.   So do berms and boulders.   In this recent post about using boulders in the garden , I said this: "One of the things that I'm putting on my 2024 to-do list is to add a little 'personality' to my garden with objects. Boulders fit that category, so I'm getting a little bit of a headstart this Fall/Winter." What other ways can you see a little personality in the garden?  With signs.  Earlier this Fall, I saw this  post on Insta from Erin the Impatient Garder that shows a few Garden Vignettes from Northview Garden .  This is a screensho...