“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 ...

Leaves have been browning and falling prematurely for weeks now due to late summer’s dry weather, but the real fall leaf drop will take hold in a few more weeks. Is the resulting blanketing of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your lawn guy tells you to pay him suck up and cart off all your leaves so they don’t pile up and kill your lawn this winter. On ...

WHEN TO MULCH. THE LEAVES ARE NOW CHANGING COLOR AND FALLING, WHICH MEANS IT’S NOW TIME FOR EVERYONE’S FAVORITE THING. AND THAT’S, WELL, DEALING WITH THE LEAVES. THIS IS A BIT OF A DEBATED TOPIC, ...

For years I’ve been advising readers not to rake leaves. This advice initially was a result of my traveling to Asia one fall and discovering upon my return that all the leaves I didn’t rake that year ...

Fall foliage draws leaf peepers outdoors to glimpse the colors, and enthusiastic yard-tenders into the garden shed to reach for their rakes. Or worse, for their leaf blowers. Yes, they’re noisy, but ...

It’s officially fall in the northern hemisphere, but depending where you are, it might not look like it. From Maine and Vermont to New York, tourists often flock to the U.S. East Coast to see the ...

This is the time of year when Nicole Hughes gets constantly distracted by the fall foliage as she drives around North Carolina. "I'm always looking," says Hughes, a biologist at High Point University.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Raking leaves is synonymous with fall, much like taking hayrides, visiting pumpkin patches, and letting pots of mums die on your front porch.

A great deal of how you live is shaped by what you choose to pay attention to, often subverted by the dangling distractions thrown your way. When that happens, life becomes interrupted by external ...

Deciding whether to rake leaves depends on your property type and gardening goals. Leaving leaves on the ground provides shelter for insects and recycles nutrients into the soil. Thick layers of wet ...