In all its variations, mulch is a garden's and gardener's best friend. You can shred all of those autumn leaves or use another type of mulch to feed your lawn, enrich the soil in the vegetable ...

“Fall is for planting” is an accepted slogan, but fall is also for mulching. Fall is a great time to mulch because that is when fallen leaves are available.

5 Genius Ways to Use Fall Leaves as Free Garden Mulch. Story by Simplify, Live, Love • 3mo. F all leaves are a free and valuable, and they can really benefit your garden soil and plants.

There really is a better, more frugal way. If leaves are allowed to fall first before any supplemental mulching occurs, then you can spread them around so beds have an average leaf mulch layer of ...

Beautiful as they are, colorful autumn leaves can be a real clean up process. Instead of bagging them up or letting them blow away, you can turn them into a valuable resource for your garden. Leaf ...

Summer may bring sunshine and ripe tomatoes, but it also tests a gardener’s patience — and their plants' endurance. Amid ...

If your older mower doesn't have a mulch setting, you may be able to order a kit ($30 to $170) that includes a high-lift mulching blade that cuts leaves into tiny pieces and a deck plug.

Fall leaves, if dry, can be added to compost to add brown matter, or carbon, but probably not in great enough quantities to use a meaningful number of the leaves your trees are dropping.

Mulching your beds with organic material is key for healthy soil and happy crops and it can be done throughout the year ...

Organic mulch keeps soil cool, moist, and weed-free while boosting long-term soil health. Great natural mulches include compost, chopped leaves, pine needles, and straw. A thick 3-inch mulch layer ...

Leaves are nature's primary mulch, and most of the time they can be left in place or mowed over. ... Gardening; Mulch and leaving the leaves. Updated: Oct. 12, 2013, 11:29 a.m.