Finally an excuse not to rake your leaves

The post also mentions leaves make a great natural mulch and help suppress weeds.

But if you are someone who must get those leaves out of your yard, instead of throwing them away, compost or recycle them.

“The best thing to do with your leaves is to either hand rake them and put them in your compost”.

For more information on how you can get the most out of those fallen leaves, you can visit the National Wildlife Federation’s website.

Landowners, listen up: there’s a new excuse to leave the leaves as they are. Say that you’re leaving them on the ground for the animals. In these situations where homeowners and renters are not permitted to leave their leaves, the NWF offers other solutions.

And just because you might not want them in your yard doesn’t mean you can’t use them for your plants and gardens. At least this way, numerous insect eggs will still survive. Scotts claims that by simply mowing up your fall leaves, your grass will look greener than ever in the spring. A leaf layer several inches deep has its own mini ecosystem. You can mulch the leaves by putting them in a large trash can and shred them with a weed whacker.

Do you rake leaves every fall?