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One of my customers has a very large and very old Pear tree in their huge garden. Each year, I rake the fallen leaves, and rotting fruit, off the grass, and onto the neighbouring flower and shrub beds. I do this for three reasons;
1: It rots down and feeds the soil.
2: It acts as a mulch and significantly reduces the amount of hand-weeding required.
3: It is actually easier than collecting it all and taking all the way to the dumping area at the opposite end of the garden.
This has worked well in the three previous years, and they now have me mulching after hand-weeding the beds that don't get any of the fruit and leaves, as the weed burden is huge (grass, hairy bitter-cress, cleavers, hog-weed, wild geum and others).
Recently, I was asked to remove remainder of fruit/leaves, as they've been told that it will poison the ground.
Your thoughts, please...
1: It rots down and feeds the soil.
2: It acts as a mulch and significantly reduces the amount of hand-weeding required.
3: It is actually easier than collecting it all and taking all the way to the dumping area at the opposite end of the garden.
This has worked well in the three previous years, and they now have me mulching after hand-weeding the beds that don't get any of the fruit and leaves, as the weed burden is huge (grass, hairy bitter-cress, cleavers, hog-weed, wild geum and others).
Recently, I was asked to remove remainder of fruit/leaves, as they've been told that it will poison the ground.
Your thoughts, please...
in the past). I don't want to upset things there, and I don't want to come across as a 'know-all' but at the same time, I don't want him 'interfering' in my work. It doesn't matter to me that they are wealthy, they need sound advice as much as anyone does.
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