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2. Don't Throw Away the Dried Leaves on Your Lawn—Use ... - AOL

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   It's made using freshly fallen fall foliage, so if you have a lot of trees in your yard, don't toss or mulch your leaves just yet. Save a few of the brightest one to make a beautiful front door ...

3. Mulch - Wikipedia

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   Thick layers of entire leaves, especially of maples and oaks, can form a soggy mat in winter and spring which can impede the new growth of lawn grass and other plants. Dry leaves are used as winter mulches to protect plants from freezing and thawing in areas with cold winters; they are normally removed during spring.

4. Sheet mulching - Wikipedia

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   Then, a top layer of organic mulch is applied. More elaborate sheet mulching involves more layers. Sheet mulching is used to transform a variety of surfaces into a fertile soil that can be planted. Sheet mulching can be applied to a lawn, a dirt lot full of perennial weeds, an area with poor soil, or even pavement or a rooftop. [3]

5. Quercus libani - Wikipedia

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   The leaf litter of the Lebanon oak is used as a biological pest control—herbivore insect repellent for protecting other plants. Its leaves placed as a mulch layer around vulnerable plants effectively repels snails, slugs, and grubs. Fresh leaves can inhibit plant growth, and so are not used directly from the tree.

6. Ask the Expert: What are the small bumps shown on oak leaves?

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   The smallbumps you describe sound like jumping oak galls. Jumping oak galls are caused by a very tiny, native, stingless wasp (Neuroterus sp.) which lays eggs in leaf buds. As the leaf develops ...

7. 7 Safe and Effective Ways to Get Rid of Poison Oak From ... - AOL

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   The leaves and stems of the western poison oak plant (Toxicodendron) can release an oil called urushiol. It gets on your skin if you touch the plant but some people also breathe in the oil when ...

8. Living mulch - Wikipedia

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   Living mulch planted to retard weed growth between corn rows. In agriculture, a living mulch is a cover crop interplanted or undersown with a main crop, and intended to serve the purposes of a mulch, such as weed suppression and regulation of soil temperature. Living mulches grow for a long time with the main crops, whereas cover crops are ...

9. Grasscycling - Wikipedia

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   Electric lawn mower in grass-cycling mode. Grasscycling is a method of handling grass clippings by leaving them to decompose on the lawn when mowing.The term combines "grass" and "recycling", and had come into use by at least 1990, [1] as part of the push to reduce the huge quantities of clippings going into landfills, up to half of some cities' summertime waste flow, [2] as 1,000 square feet ...