Kitchen Garden Forum

Have just returned from a lovely walk in our local beech woods. The colours are wonderful (still) and although there are still plenty of leaves on the tree there is a very thick covering of leaves everywhere on the ground. I just love that childish feeling of walking through all the rustling leaves kicking them about in my Wellies. What I would have given to have been able to scroop up a huge amount of them to store them and rot them down for a soil conditioner, although I suspect that beech leaves en masse are probably rather too acid on their own. In any case, the woodlands are a SSI and there are always lots of wardens around this time of year looking for all the illicit mushroom pickers.

Dear Primrose, don't get me started on that lovely childish feeling walking through leaves, and Beech ones at that, the best for rustling.