Over-mulching can restrict the oxygen that plant roots need to grow. For grass clippings, you'll need to further decrease the depth (or mix with another material like dead leaves), as they can pack ...

As fall approaches, you may feel like it's time to hang up the gardening hat and take a break until spring returns. However, by mulching in the fall, you can knock out one of the biggest gardening ...

If you have a yard full of fallen leaves every autumn, you’re not alone. Instead of bagging them up for trash day, you can put those leaves to work in your garden. Fallen leaves are more than just a ...

As you’re prepping your garden for its winter slumber, you might want to add an unexpected to-do to your fall gardening checklist: mulching. While garden mulching is often associated with spring ...

As autumn leaves continue to fall, the yearly debate arrives - is it best to "leave the leaves?" For many Americans, raking leaves in the fall to be burned or bagged and collected is a fact of life, ...

Taking the time to mulch the leaves that clutter your yard each fall can yield some great benefits, especially if you’re a home gardener. Spreading your fresh mulch over your lawn and garden will ...

First, the most obvious reason: Raking leaves into plastic garbage bags and sending them to a landfill creates huge amounts of unnecessary waste. It also contributes to releasing greenhouse gases that ...

Leaf-peepers may not appreciate how much time homeowners and gardeners spend dealing with leaves in the fall. Of course, leaves fall in the forest every year with no raking involved. But for your yard ...

“It might be tempting to give lawns a close ‘crew cut’ before winter, but it’s important not to mow too low. If lawns are scalped, it exposes the grass crowns, which are the growing points near the ...

NDSU’s Don Kinzler says mowing shorter and mulching leaves now can help prevent snow mold and strengthen lawns for spring. Don Kinzler says fall lawn prep, including mulching leaves, can help prevent ...