To keep your yard looking neat, you need a good rake to keep things in order. However, the rake you use to clean up leaves isn’t necessarily the best rake for smoothing out soil, mulch, or gravel. For ...

Mowing leaves on a lawn chops them into small pieces that will fall between the grass blades and disappear. However, keeping ...

Your responses and questions to last week’s column fluttered into my inbox like oak leaves after a storm. Rather than taking ...

Will it be okay if I leave leaves in my garden beds at home? My work schedule is heavy this fall and I need some time to ...

“The problem with roses is that most of them have thorns.” “Too much of a good thing, yadda, yadda, yadda...” Pick your favorite idiom and I’ll show you a garden reference. How about, “The problem ...

While many see fallen leaves as a chore, they can actually be beneficial for the landscape. Here's how they can help.

Fall brings cooler temperatures, shorter days, and the perfect opportunity to prepare your landscape for winter while setting ...

The first step in learning how to get rid of leaves is to have the right tools on hand. Lots of Field Editors told us about their favorite rakes. The most popular rakes are beloved just for their size ...

Many parks and lawns are currently a carpet of gorgeous fallen leaves. Why not just let them be instead of rake, rake, rake or that blare of gas-powered leaf blowers? Mercy. There is a ...