Still it gives me a start and I already was able to just park the car at the curb in front of my house and take out afew bags and immediately use them to mulch the raised daylily bed on the right side front I call the planterbox. Plus part of Florabundaville rose garden next to it. Then I unloaded what was left in the sideyard after driving up the driveway. Then I went and got another load of bagged leaves. Thats all I can find.

So now I need to unload this last bunch and then drag all the bags I currently have upstairs so I can start mulching daylilies up there.

Things are coming along good this year. Between the straw bales I bought and used and some future trips for bagged leaves, I should be able to get the place mulched up for spring.

Last year I had my grass cutting guys dump two truckloads of loose fall leaves on the driveway and used those. I didn't get any straw or many bagged leaves. I don't want to do that again as I found it was too much work. The bagged leaves are easier to get were I want to start using them, just drag bags around. With the loose ones I had to move them from the driveway by raking onto an old sheet and it was just more work in the long run.

Sharon

It was drizzeling again today so I was out doing some errands and grocery shopping as there could be no working in the garden today. So after I came home and unloaded the car, I went back out to grab various bagged leaves that I had spotted in my drive around town. Not a great day for leaf napping as the bags are just drenched on the outside but tomorrow, Wednesday, is pickup by the town day. So if I don't get them today they are gone. I can use them even though I know there will be lots more because if we have a nice day, I can use these ones I have to get lots mulched upstairs before setting off to try and find more next Monday and Tuesday.

newyorkrita, I noticed you have straw too. I was given some yesterday at work (I work at a place that uses them for their pumpkin displays). I've never used straw before to mulch with. Do you find it weed seeds a lot in spring? Do you find any problems with rodents getting into the bales?
I've been thinking of using it to mulch some of my beds, but I'm not sure about the weed issue and the rodents overwintering in it.
What do you think? Does it serve as a good mulch? Or should I just give it to the neighbors? I can't compost where I live or I would use it for that.

I went and picked up lots and lots of bagged leaves today, doing many trips. The sideyard is full of them were I just dragged them out of the car and piled and left them. Of course, they are not going to stay there. Need some to mulch the daylily bed running alongside the driveway. I piled up bags near there for that project. Then some get dragged to the front yard to do between the hedges that are the backround of the left side front yard daylily bed. I did the right side already the other week.

Most of the rest go upstairs to finish the daylily and blueberry beds there.

I still need some for the hedges that run all along the side property line but the rose beds that run along the bed along the house there are all done.

There is a big pile of absolutely perfect bags that would be enough for me to get two more loads and have enough for everything but they are in extra large and tightly stuffed bags. Too heavy, I can't lift them. Was already trying but just wouldn't budge much for me. If I can't get those, will have to find something else yet to be finished. The work never seems to be done.