Plant your potatoes when white oak leaves are the size of a cat's ear--the phenology thread

[Curmudgeoness]

5. We are like twins!!!

I do the same thing. Actually, I have to rake sometimes in the fall if the weather is not good for mowing them...there are just too many leaves from all these huge trees to leave on the ground. Lucky for me, two years in a row I have got them all mulched. The years that I have to rake, they go into bags and I dump them in the yard and mulch in the spring....but that is so much more work.

I have been told that oak leaves are the gold standard for mulch, so it is all good.