Gardeners in the Asylum

OLS · 04-12-2013, 10:28 AM

My landlady used to complain about her backyard being a desert. It was nothing but tan clay when I moved in.
She bought a truckload of chipped wood mulch, but her idiot yard man scraped it all away over several weekends
and it all went out to the street. But that still didn't teach her. Instead of bagging leaves every fall, I would rake
them into a pile and run the mower over them until they were shredded. That worked better cause the dumba55
couldn't get a good grip on em with the rake. But eventually he would undo everything I did. Then she got tired
of him breaking or stealing all her tools and told him to stop coming around. NOW you can see the results. I never
know why people don't mulch down their leaves every year. It makes outstanding dirt and the worms love it.
You can't throw leaves on a compost and expect them to rot. They have to be shredded first. I always get angry
when I see some idiot with 35 bags of leaves on the curb awaiting pickup.
But now that my own processes are allowed to go on without interference, she has a good 7 inches of rich topsoil.
Everytime she comments on it, I tell her that she'd probably have 15 inches of topsoil if she would have cut the
a-hole loose sooner. She still can't grow grass, too much tree canopy cover. But at least the yard doesn't make
dust anymore. ANd those trees REALLY work well in the 98 degree summer here. Step into that fenced backyard
from the street at 4:30 in the afternoon and the temp drops 15 degrees.

04-12-2013, 10:28 AM	#11
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Re: Gardeners in the Asylum My landlady used to complain about her backyard being a desert. It was nothing but tan clay when I moved in. She bought a truckload of chipped wood mulch, but her idiot yard man scraped it all away over several weekends and it all went out to the street. But that still didn't teach her. Instead of bagging leaves every fall, I would rake them into a pile and run the mower over them until they were shredded. That worked better cause the dumba55 couldn't get a good grip on em with the rake. But eventually he would undo everything I did. Then she got tired of him breaking or stealing all her tools and told him to stop coming around. NOW you can see the results. I never know why people don't mulch down their leaves every year. It makes outstanding dirt and the worms love it. You can't throw leaves on a compost and expect them to rot. They have to be shredded first. I always get angry when I see some idiot with 35 bags of leaves on the curb awaiting pickup. But now that my own processes are allowed to go on without interference, she has a good 7 inches of rich topsoil. Everytime she comments on it, I tell her that she'd probably have 15 inches of topsoil if she would have cut the a-hole loose sooner. She still can't grow grass, too much tree canopy cover. But at least the yard doesn't make dust anymore. ANd those trees REALLY work well in the 98 degree summer here. Step into that fenced backyard from the street at 4:30 in the afternoon and the temp drops 15 degrees.