6 Organic Mulches to Overwinter the Garden

Just because the weather is getting cool doesn’t mean your gardening chores are finished. Don’t miss this important step in maintaining garden health.

Mulch Options for Your Vegetable Garden

The mulch options that can be used in your garden rows seem limitless, so use this guide to help narrow down your choice and cover your garden well.

raking leaves

Low-tech Leaf Mover

At our place, leaves are raw product. We gather them up and run them through a shredder for mulching perennials before winter. The problem is, of course, that we can’t mulch until we’ve had a hard frost and the weather has turned cool, if not cold.