
Winter is garden planning time. Choose native plants!
Leave grass clippings on the lawn.
Mulching mowers create fine grass clippings that will break down and add nitrogen and organic matter to the soil. Leaving grass clippings on the lawn over the season provides the equivalent of one regular fertilizer application, and will not cause thatch.
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