22/10/2021
All garden professionals today agree: using the leaves as mulch is beneficial for the yard. So let's put an end to the era of the destructive polluting gasoline leaf blowers. Use a rake or a broom for your driveway, or, if you must, an electric blower. Mulch mow the leaves into lawn and leave the leaves everywhere else. Our advice: tend to your yard as nature intended; if you allow your yard to be a continuation of your local natural habitat, you will need to do very little, and you will support a healthy biodiversity, good soil and clean drinking water. And the birds and butterflies? They will be happy to call your yard their home. www.healthyyards.org
