Your lawn mower can do double duty as a powerful leaf mulcher with a few simple modifications. This clever trick creates free ...

Prepare to Mulch Mulching leaves is not all that different than standard lawn mowing. Assuming you have a three-function mower, set the mower up to its full height setting.

Leaf mulch is also lighter weight than bark mulch. It is easier to transport around your garden beds. The simplest strategy is to rake leaves from your lawn into nearby landscape beds.

A light leaf mulching is fine, but you want to see the lawn through the leaf cover. A heavy layer of leaves left on a lawn all winter can smother out the grass and will cause more harm than help.

Raking or blowing leaves is not only laborious, it's wasteful. This fall's growing movement is to mulch leaves in place, letting the shards decompose during winter to nourish your glorious, green ...

Several inches of shredded leaves also make an excellent mulch for vegetable and flower beds, as well as the lawn. Some folks like to rake, but I prefer to blow and vacuum my leaves.

LAWN HACK ‘Vacuum mulching’ can keep your lawn green and healthy in Fall despite the falling leaves – any mower can be transformed ...

Leaf mulch is just what it sounds like: decomposed leaves that have fallen from the many beautiful and generous deciduous trees that share these mountains with us.

However, research at Purdue University found that mulching leaves into the lawn, even at high rates, did not affect turf quality, color or soil pH.

It's fall and that means leaves are littering lawns around the country. Time to take out the rake and bag up them up, right? Wrong. Environmental experts say raking leaves and removing them from ...