Is your back aching from raking and bagging leaves?
Or is your lawn still covered in a sea of fallen foliage?
A national movement is gaining momentum to make fall lawn clean-up much easier. It's called "Leave the Leaves". Instead of raking and bagging the leaves, homeowners are urged to grind them up and either leave them on top of your grass or use them as mulch for your plants.
Rick Vuyst is a well-known lawn and garden expert, who is host of the Gardening Simplified Show. He has been grinding up his leaves and using them as "homemade mulch" for decades. He says using this organic material around the base of plants adds nutrients to the soil and also acts as a natural insulation for the roots. Vuyst says keeping soil temperature more uniform during the winter months will help keep plants healthier. Vuyst says it's essential that you "grind up" the leaves that will remain on the ground to prevent "snow mold" from forming and to keep burrowing animals, like voles away.
By the way, there's a similar "effort-saving" movement that will help make life easier in the Spring. It's called "No Mow May". In this case, homeowners are encouraged to wait until June to start mowing.
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