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Mulching Leaves: Mow Into the Lawn or Shred for Garden Beds
Mowing fall leaves into the lawn feeds turf for free; shredding them for beds needs about 3 inches. How much is too much, and which leaves to skip.
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What Is Mulching? Materials Compared and When It Backfires
Mulching explained plainly: what it actually does, how deep to lay each material, and the specific ways over-mulching damages trees and beds.
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The Easiest Vegetables to Grow, Ranked by What Can Go Wrong
Twelve easy vegetables ranked by days to harvest, sun, spacing and soil temperature, plus the popular crops beginners should skip and why they fail so often.
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Vegetables That Grow in Shade, Sorted by Hours of Sun
What produces on 3, 4 and 6 hours of light, sorted by how much sun you really have, with the crops that won't work in shade and how to handle slugs and roots.
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Silt Application: Using Tank and Pond Sediment to Rebuild Soil
Tank silt raises yields 14–33% and holds water for 3–5 extra days of drought. What the sediment actually contains, how much to apply, and when not to.
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