Earth Day - April 22, 2010
What are you doing in your yard/garden for a sustainable lifestyle? Last fall I chopped up my leaves in my trusty shredder and spread them throughout my gardens. Granted, some of them blew back into the yard with our strong lake winds, but they were small enough to decompose where they landed. I dumped some in my compost pile and will be using those this spring to mulch more of my gardens with. During the long, cold, snowy winter I saved my kitchen scraps in a big, covered bucket. When it was full, and the weather wasn't too bad, I trudged down to the compost pile and emptied it. Most of it is still there waiting to be turned over but the squirrels and birds did have a few meals from my scraps. And that is fine, it's fun to watch them digging for treasure. This spring I'll have plenty of nutrient rich soil from the bottom of my compost pile to enrich my heavy clay soil with.
Earth Day/Sustainability Giveaway!!
Hi Bonnie, Welcome to Garden blogging! Have you joined Blotanical yet? It's a garden blogging community that you should look into. You will make lots of friends and find an amazing number of garden blogs. I will add your link to my earth day project. Thanks for participating;-) Jan
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ReplyDeleteGood job! Gotta love that compost thing. And welcome to the world of blogging!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Came over from Jan's Sustainable Post.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip about Blotanical. I signed right up. Can't wait to start searching it.
ReplyDeleteGet ready to never be able to leave your computer;-) Really though, you will have to budget your time wisely because soon you will have an ever-increasing amount of new people coming over to visit your blog. And of course that means you'll need to visit them as well. So it does take up a bit of time. Blotanical has some fun things on the site so I'm sure you'll enjoy it, & I'm glad you signed up!
ReplyDeleteHi Bonnie, Wasn't sure if Skeeter would get back to you on the butterfly bushes, but here in my garden in Tennessee they do indeed go dormant and lose all their leaves. I do like you and cut them back to about three feet. Soon they'll be sprouting out all over as it is looking like spring!
ReplyDeleteHello Bonnie and welcome to the wonderful world of Blogging! Keep it fun and dont stress out in time as some of us have been known to do. lol....
ReplyDeleteI answered your question about the butterfly bushes over at In the Garden. But to answer you here, no, my butterfly bushes do not go completely dormant. They keep some leaves and kind of take a little nap during the winter.