Tracking very similar conditions for Monday, due to low pressure over our northwest. This means clouds, cool highs, and the chance for passing drizzle!
Keeping leaves in your yard and garden beds helps provide nesting ground for insects as well as insulates your plants from the cold winter conditions.HARRISBURG, Pa. — Temperatures are dropping and so are the leaves. But before you grab your rake and get to work, environmental experts say you can save yourself some time and benefit your local ecosystem if you just
“It's tempting to rake up all the leaves and make your yard look pristine, but those leaves, if kept in place, can actually provide nesting material and a place to hide and hibernate and have protection from the elements, including predators, and the temperatures over the winter," explained Hardy.
“It’s very well founded that plants, to grow well, need a rich, organic content in the soil. It’s the leaves and their decomposition that provide the organic content and put it back in the soil," Hardy explained."If you just constantly grow plants and remove all of that above-ground mass, you’re going to deplete the soil of what was in it. So it’s good to return some of that dead, decomposing matter back into the soil.
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