Spring Cleaning - Outdoors • Sugar-Sunshine-and-Flowers %

We had some beautiful days this week! It was so nice to be able to go outside and start the spring cleaning! Mowed the yard – love the smell of freshly mowed grass! Then raked, and raked, and raked! At last when you are spring cleaning outside you are getting a workout at the same time! Plus as I raked, I found some more crocus hiding under the leaves – like hidden treasures.

When I was helping my son and his wife last year, he showed me a timesaving way to rake leaves. Instead of raking all the leaves and putting them in bags or using the leaf blower vacuum mulcher, use a tarp to gather the leaves.

*Lay the tarp down on the ground, near where you want to rake the leaves.*

*Then just rake the leaves onto the tarp.*

*You can put as many leaves on the tarp as you can carry or pull.*

*Gather up the four corners, tucking in side areas and pull to area where are going*
*to burn or discard them.*

*If you are going to carry them, you might want to pull edges together to create a bundle.*

*Makes it so much faster to rake!*
*I also wet down the area around where I am going to burn*
*and stay outside while it is burning, just to be safe.*

*Little crocus hidden under the leaves.*

*Another hidden treasure.*

*Happy Spring! Enjoy!*

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Spring Cleaning – Outdoors

Sugar, Sunshine and Flowers