City Gardening

a gardening blog-azine by Lorraine Flanigan

Posts Tagged ‘leaves’

Mulch, Mulch, Mulch

By • Nov 12th, 2010 • Category: Dig in, Fall

To non-gardeners, bags of leaves left at the roadside are just so much waste material to be collected and disposed of by the city. But to the horticulturally cognoscenti, those leaves are plant duvets that keep the garden cozy all winter long. Like a deep blanket of snow, a four- to six-inch mulch of leaves [...]