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November 2023 — Monty Don

GATHER LEAVES TO MAKE LEAFMOULDEvery fallen leaf is potential leafmould and leafmould  which, in distinction to compost, takes no turning, mixing or knowledge to make, is yard gold.  So I’m obsessive about making leafmould, gathering as lots of the fallen leaves as potential, mowing them to cut them up after which…

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June 2023 — Monty Don

Grass CuttingBy June 1,000,000 gardens are ceaselessly buzzing – and at occasions unpleasantly roaring – with the sound of motor- mowers sustaining the grass trim and beneath administration. Nonetheless at Longmeadow we limit this to paths and try to let as relatively so much grass as potential develop extended and…

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Yard Reflections – July | Angie The Freckled Rose

As we talk we’re revisiting my July yard situated in Northern Massachusetts (zone 6a.) My crops are grown in raised beds and planters. That is my fourth yr rising in these untreated cedar beds. This rising season, my yard was full of greens, herbs and companion flowers. Most of what…

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