Living in suburbia... I have a good supply of ash and maple leaves... These get mowed up to break them up, then dug into the soil... Another layer each week till I run out of leaves. Cover this with a layer of compost and more leaves for a blanket. By spring the worms and general decomp have broken it all down.

Fall is the time for this work.


"Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it�s worst, an intolerable one."
 Thomas Paine (from "Common Sense" 1776)