Fallen leaves provide habitat for wildlife and can benefit soil health.
To best support wildlife and soil health, experts say leaves should be left where they fall. As leaves begin to blanket yards across the country this fall, many might be tempted to clear away the crunchy foliage. Not so fast, experts say.
“What happens when those things get buried in the landfills is they break down in anaerobic conditions with no oxygen, and that produces methane, which of course, is a potent greenhouse gas,” he said. “They fall right around the root zone of the plant where they do things like suppress weeds, retain soil moisture, and then they slowly break down and compost and return their nutrients right to the roots of the plant,” he said. “That sounds an awful lot like mulch and fertilizer.”
Experts said taking steps to leave leaves around your yard in the fall is just one part of a larger effort to move away from manicured lawns that are dead zones for many species, providing little to no habitat or nutrients for wildlife and requiring many resources, including fertilizer, to maintain.
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