WHEN TO MULCH. THE LEAVES ARE NOW CHANGING COLOR AND FALLING, WHICH MEANS IT’S NOW TIME FOR EVERYONE’S FAVORITE THING. AND THAT’S, WELL, DEALING WITH THE LEAVES. THIS IS A BIT OF A DEBATED TOPIC, ...

Consider this your excuse to ditch the extra garden work.

As a child, I remember my father spending hours raking leaves and filling up trash bags to set by the curb for the weekly garbage collection. What he didn’t realize, however, was the value these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As autumn leaves continue to fall, the yearly debate arrives - is it best to "leave the leaves?" For many Americans, raking leaves ...

It's that time of the year again. The air has already started to turn crisp, and before we know it those brightly colored leaves will begin to fall and blanket yards across North Jersey. And while ...

You've taken the time to rake up all the fallen leaves in your backyard; it seems a waste to simply discard them. Instead, ...

Deciding whether to rake leaves depends on your property type and gardening goals. Leaving leaves on the ground provides shelter for insects and recycles nutrients into the soil. Thick layers of wet ...

Mulch can make your spring beds look polished or permanently half finished. Spread the wrong way, it flattens plants, invites ...

Coming soon to a backyard near you: leaf drop. What’s your aftercare plan? This fall, gardeners can turn to new research to inform their decisions on how to manage the cleanup — whether or not to ...