Late Winter Burn In Perennial Garden Beds - February 2024
Here's something that I've never done: burned parts of my garden beds. Each Fall, I do a clean-up that includes mulching in A LOT of my leaves. I also add a big number of mulched leaves to my compost bins. And, I typically try to 'blow out' my beds into the lawn where I run them over with the mower. I then...blow them 'back on' the beds. A modified 'leave the leaves' that works for me . Then there's the Oak trees. They hold their leaves WELL past the time that I've called it quits with Fall clean-up. So come late Winter, our beds are filled with leaves. Over the past few years, I've tried using a weed propane torch to burn up some weeds. In lieu of herbicides, the torch is supposed to be 'better' for the world that chemicals. But, I also thought....maybe I could burn up some of the dried leaves laying around my beds. And, it didn't take me long to learn that I certainly could. Here's a photo showing the leave