And so somehow the pretty flowers have been replaced by autumn leaves...and I ended up devoting yesterday afternoon to pruning my grapevine.
Unfortunately my attempt at mulching (1 bucket of vegie scraps, 1 bucket of shredded paper, 1 bucket of leaves, 1 cup of blood and bone) hasn't amounted to much more than a dry mound of semi-decomposed matter, but I shall persevere! I want lettuce by summer!