Cleaning Up Front Porch Beds - Ornamental Grasses for Compost - February 2024
A couple of days ago, I posted in my [compost bins] diary a look at the current state of my bins now that I've topped them off with a lot of ornamental grass material - reeds, canes and blades. I tried to chop the material down into smaller segments in an attempt to break it up a bit and speed decomposition. While I was cleaning up the grasses, I also went into the front porch bed and clipped off and cleaned up the front of the bed. That included a number of Dusty Millers and all of the Seslaria Autumnalis (Autumn Moor Grass) . Here, below, is a look at this bed after I trimmed up the Moor Grasses - but left behind some of the Fall leaf litter that has accumulated over Winter: I also have three large Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grasses in the island bed between our driveway and front walk. I pruned all of those ornamental grasses and cut them off an inch-or-two above their crown. That island bed after the ornamental grasses have be...