Ornamental Grasses Chop And Drop Mulching - IB2DWs - February 2025

'Tis the season for the start of garden cleanup. Well...it is probably too early to do MOST of the cleanup, but I did start with a few 'chop and drop' experiments. First, I cleaned up a couple of Autumn Moor Grasses in the new front porch bed extension . Then, I moved on to the raised vegetable bed on our back patio . The most recent little slice of the garden that I started clean-up on was hinted in this post showing the tulip tips from earlier this week . Those tulips are down near the sidewalk in the IB2DWs (extended) bed. That's also where we have (now) two Panicum grasses ( I divided one that was struggling last Fall ) and the 'mystery' blue-ish Moor Grass that I moved out from the front porch bed . I clipped off the grasses at the ground and cut them up into smaller pieces. And, like the other areas of the garden, I left them in place to provide a light mulch layer. See below for a couple of photos showing this area: Thi...