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Leave the Leaves
Why Leave the Leaves?
Provide winter habitat for insects, invertebrates, micro organisms, bees, and other pollinators.
Enhance your yard and garden soil health.
Create natural mulch to help supress weeds and to retain water in your soil.
Keeping the leaves in your yard also reduces landfill waste and the resulting methane produced by decomposing organic materials in landfills.
What are the best ways to Leave the Leaves? If you're most interested in providing for insects and invertebrates, keep your leaves whole and rake leaves into flower beds, around the base of trees, or under shrubs.
If you're most interested in enhancing the health of your garden soil, dig leaves into your garden beds.
If you're interested in feeding your lawn and you don't have garden beds or open soil in which to rake leaves, use a mulching lawn mower to chop the leaves into small pieces in your lawn.