A cold rain all day today, about half an inch. Yesterday was nice -- 52° but pleasant to work in. I spread leaf litter and a little bit of mulch.
Later the bulk of the fallen leaves were cleaned up and taken away by Jeronimo's men -- the cottonwood and aspen leaves don't disintegrate and form huge mats all over and need to be removed.
So the gardens were cleared up, it had rained the other day so soil was moist, and I had a contractor bag full of chopped leaf litter to spread around.
I dumped it into the trug, added water and then kneaded and mixed it to get it all wet. I did several trugs -- a lot, actually -- there was a ton of leaf litter to work with. Then, after spreading it around the gardens, I used one bag of wood chip mulch to put down to hold the leaf litter from blowing away.
It is fine and dry and I didn't want it to disappear in the wind.
The steady damp and rain today has tamped it down pretty well, and the soil from the rain we had before was moist underneath. Hopefully the leaf litter will add nutrients and tilth, the bit of mulch will hold it, and the gardens will be happy next spring.