We are work­ing hard to pre­pare for an “offi­cial” launch of Land­scape & Gar­den Today.  Need­less to say, there seems to be more work than time, but it’s fun to see LGT take shape.  Here’s cross­ing fin­gers it will be pic­ture per­fect in the next few weeks, but Christ­mas is always com­ing, or so mother used to say.  Check back fre­quently to see how we are com­ing along.  We def­i­nitely would love com­ments, feed­back, or any other shar­ing.   As our com­mu­nity grows, you will have an oppor­tu­nity to com­mu­ni­cate with like minded folk who are com­mit­ted to going green from around the world.

Gar­den Cen­ters have great deals this time of year.

In the mean­time Fall has been hap­pen­ing all around.  It hap­pens to be my per­sonal favorite sea­son, fol­lowed closely by spring.  The leaves are near peak here and that means soon they will be on the ground.   Instead of send­ing them to the land­fill, or burn­ing them (oh, no!) a great way to fer­til­ize your lawn is to run over the leaves with a lawn mower.  They will nat­u­rally com­post, pro­vid­ing nutri­ents all win­ter long, and you don’t have to rake as many.  Depend­ing on the num­ber of trees, you still may have to rake up leaves.  Lucky you…save those leaves.   If you wait until the leaves are almost dry, you can either shred them or just put the pile near the com­post area to add as “brown mat­ter” to sand­wich between green mate­r­ial such as yard scraps and veg­etable peel­ings.   Your com­post pile will love you.  You will be amply rewarded when rich brown com­post greets you at the bot­tom of the bin.

It’s also a great time to check your local nurs­ery cen­ter for some great buys.  Bulbs, shrubs and trees are all great fall plant­i­ngs, and by now many are on sale.  Look for native vari­eties to go green!  Also, remem­ber to keep them watered through the win­ter if it’s dry to pre­vent wind burn.

We look for­ward to blog­ging with you again soon.  Enjoy your Autumn.

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