You can remove leaves from your mulch bed with your hands, a rake, or a leaf blower, or prevent them by installing a leaf barrier.
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Tips for Cleaning Up Leaves in Your Yard
Leaf cleanup doesn’t have to take all weekend. Simple tricks, like using a lightweight rake, working with the wind, or raking onto a tarp, can save you time and effort. You can also mulch light leaf cover with your mower, break the yard into sections, or use leaf scoops to grab piles quickly. These small changes make the job easier on your body and keep your yard looking neat all season long.
Fire-resistant Plants for Your Landscape
When choosing fire-resistant plants, check the flammability ratings, plan for proper spacing, and have a plan to maintain them.
What is a Pollinator Lawn?
A pollinator lawn attracts and supports pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, and certain beetles. It features flowering plants that provide food and shelter for these beneficial insects.
How to Create a Pollinator Lawn
Assessing your current lawn, selecting the right plants, choosing an installation technique and conversion method, and caring for your plants are all steps involved in creating a pollinator lawn.
How to Keep Mulch in Place
Installing proper edging, creating a mulch trench, using heavier mulch, removing landscape fabric and plastic sheeting, keeping mulch moist, and applying mulch stabilizers can help keep mulch in place. Learn more here.
13 Common Lawn Mowing Mistakes
Common lawn mowing mistakes include mowing grass too short, cutting more than one-third of it, using dull blades, and using the wrong mower.
🦴 Game of Bones: 2025’s Best Cities for Training Your Dog 🐶
Find out which U.S. city leads in 2025’s Best Cities for Training Your Dog, based on trainer availability and quality, affordability, community engagement, pet supply access, and local puppy mill laws.
7 Signs Your Lawn Needs Watering
Your lawn needs water if you notice changes in color, lingering footprints, slow growth, curling grass blades, dry soil, insect damage, or an increase in weeds.
5 Signs of Moles in Your Yard
Raised ridges across the lawn, yellowing streaks of grass, small volcano-like soil mounds, soft patches underfoot, and sudden weed growth are the clearest signs of mole activity. These changes appear in your yard before you spot the animal, making them the best clues for homeowners to recognize early.