Personally I wouldn't be removing any soil or compost - just remove leaves, stems and roots of plants you don't want there (ie; weeds) and add to the soil and compost you've already got. Tree and shrub leaves take a long time to break down, so I'd either leave them elsewhere to become leafmould, or use them as a mulch once you've planted up
I usually get somewhat bunged up at this time of year - colds that come tend to stay.
This year my sinuses have been really badly jammed (not able to breathe through nose). Nose looks almost square. Also a bit of a cough but not much. I can think of 2 causes:
- I have been gardening where I wasn't before. Recently vacuuming up leaves, shredding, compost etc. - The central heating went on recently, and may have changed the humidity in the house. I sometimes cough when humidity gets high or low, or if there are dogs in a house. An extra exasperator?
One simple thing that I have found help is to have a humidifier in the room where I spend time or am sleeping.
For outside - perhaps try following the Guidance (!) and wearing a mask, or a snood. Since lockdown I've been using a set of inexpensive MTBer snoods as my face covering (7 for about £10), and there's even a fun one that makes look like a skull.
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This year my sinuses have been really badly jammed (not able to breathe through nose). Nose looks almost square. Also a bit of a cough but not much. I can think of 2 causes:
- I have been gardening where I wasn't before. Recently vacuuming up leaves, shredding, compost etc.
- The central heating went on recently, and may have changed the humidity in the house. I sometimes cough when humidity gets high or low, or if there are dogs in a house. An extra exasperator?
One simple thing that I have found help is to have a humidifier in the room where I spend time or am sleeping.
For outside - perhaps try following the Guidance (!) and wearing a mask, or a snood. Since lockdown I've been using a set of inexpensive MTBer snoods as my face covering (7 for about £10), and there's even a fun one that makes look like a skull.
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