Texas Gardening: Need advice about dormant garden spot, 1 by sybram

sybram wrote:
Oh heck, Chuck, too late. I finished it yesterday. Well, maybe not--you tell me. My chipper is leaking gas, and hubby is really busy right now and can't look at it. I was only about a third done with it, but I did have more crushed leaves and a muck bucket of chipped wood/leaves. So, I added that (about 3 inches of crushed leaves, then two inches of chipped wood).I felt like I needed to get it covered so started looking around for what I could use. Our workshop has a long porch on it, and the leaves pile up high in front of it. There are layers and layers of rotted leaves, so I raked all that up and added to plot, as well as lots of regular dry oak leaves, which I made about 6-8 inches high instead of three. Then I saw my two piles of red hardwood mulch (small leftover piles), one from last year and one from this summer. I just use them when the armadillos get rowdy in the flower beds. I scraped all that up that I could, even though the last year's pile had already broken down a lot. Had about 4+ inches of that on it, and then watered in all the new stuff.

So, should I put those other things you mentioned on top, or just leave it be. I have horse poop, but of course, the sugar would be a lot easier. I also have some coffee grounds, but not enough to cover it.

You sound like an experienced gardner, which I'm not, so I would really appreciate your thoughts.