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, ...

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 ...

Mums, shown at Calloway's Nursery on Lemmon Avenue in Dallas, are a popular pick for fall gardens because the annal prefers cooler weather. Angela Piazza / Staff Photographer While spring is usually ...

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 ...