Texas Gardening: shredded leaves for top dressing, 0 by Seedfork

Seedfork wrote:
I guess I don't qualify as a Texas gardener or as a girl, but I have an area of bare dirt in the shade (grass won't grow). It is surrounded by my compost piles and my garden shed.
It is a fairly large area, large enough for me to use the riding mower when I want. I can spread out as many as 16 bags of leaves at one time. My area is on a down hill slope in two directions so all the shredded leaves tend to work there way down toward the compost piles. It may not seem to matter much but you would be surprised how much easier it is to rake the shredded leaves down hill. If I have grass clippings I will often mix them in while I am shredding the leaves(in small batches).
After I process a batch of leaves I rake them into a big pile and use my seed fork to toss them onto the compost piles. I use the same area over and over, and it is almost like a small compost factory.