It may not be rare or exotic, but leaf mulch is a magical, free amendment to your garden’s soil that many a gardener swears by. I first noticed it in the driveway of my grandmother’s summer ...

Organic mulches include compost, straw, grass clippings, wood chips, conifer needles and shredded leaves ... mulch to improve weed suppression. The mulch you use can also depend upon the kind of ...

Follow our guide to mulching, an essential garden technique. Many different materials can be used to cover the soil’s surface, including bark chippings, leaf mould, well-rotted farmyard manure ...

If you only have a small garden, you can save ... and the following autumn the leaves will have rotted down into a rich, crumbly mixture that can be used as a mulch around the base of plants.