hold up with the spring clean up!

[silva]

As soon as the weather here warms up and the snow melts it's tempting to go out and rake the yard and get on with making it pretty.
NOT YET!
The good guy bugs are still in there, making their families, ready to keep that good balance in place.
If you disturb there homes now you may find the ones that aren't so friendly will be glad to take over, and far harder to get rid of!

Spring garden clean up done RIGHT

Now that spring is near, many of us are anxious to clean up our gardens. But, a good spring garden clean up should NOT be a destructive process.

savvygardening.com

 

[silva]

I like this thread too!

Lawns

Lawns. Yes, one of the worst things for the environment is lawns. This was mentioned in the film The End of Suburbia. A grass lawn is the invention of medieval nobility and royalty. In the first place, it was never meant to be the primary landscape of human civilization that it has become...

www.veganforum.org

 

[vesper818]

On the opposite side of the year, blanketing the garden with compost, shredded leaves and mulch protects the soil biome and root systems from erosion and temperature swings.
Tuck in the bugs!