You don’t need to gather dead leaves from your lawn – here’s why

It’s late autumn in London where I live. It’s that time of year when millions of gardeners like me across the northern hemisphere can be found wearing our thickest jumpers and spending hours raking huge piles of leaves into plastic bags at the end of our driveways. In the United States alone, almost 10 million tons The amount of garden waste that is produced each year is sent to landfills. This is an incredible amount of effort, not only from an environmental standpoint, but also, frankly, from the standpoint of our squeaky backs. So wouldn’t it be great to have an alternative?

Oddly enough, it is the most…