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Gardening here in Auburn, Alabama is predominately leaf raking and taking to the ever present leaf pile!  I have a lot of oak trees in my yard and the leaves have been falling at a great rate.  It seems as though I'll never get them all raked up and in piles down at the end of my lot! 

What's going on in your garden?

Sue

Sue, I can relate to your oak leaves dropping now.  Before I moved to this condo 37 years ago, I lived where I had 60 oak trees on the lot.  It seemed half of the leaves dropped in the Fall and we'd have a foot of leaves on the ground, and the rest dropped in the Spring and we'd have another foot of leaves on the ground.  Tom worked with the youth at his church and he'd have them come to the house, rake the leaves onto a drop cloth, then haul them across the road to an unused area of the Township cemetery.  We only lived there three years, not because of the leaves but probably because of the water softener.  Where we are now, the condo assn takes care of things.  Of course, we pay for it in our monthly fee, but it is nice it is not my responsibility.  Enjoy yourself.

Tom told me yesterday that he had driven by that house and at least half of the trees had been taken out.  Too bad, in a way, but it makes easier mowing and raking.

Mary Ann

Hoping :-)

I have just secured a gardener but earliest is two weeks, grass is overgrown already...never realised what they charged...something i had never needed to worry about before when i had my Richard...I ordered myself a " witches " corn broom for the leaves outside my kitchen side door part of the patio area...