Americans love mulch and many of us are misusing it
Autumn is knocking on the door, an optimal time for certain annual tasks in the garden — reseeding a threadbare lawn, planting trees and shrubs and dividing tired perennials.
But these tasks seem to spur the most fastidious among us into further action by cutting back every waning perennial and annual and then opening the floodgates for a sea of mulch. This yard scrubbing leaves the neatnik poised and ready to intercept the very first leaf to yield to gravity.
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