1.   Avoid leaf mulch in humid winter climates, where it can promote disease.

2.   Before using the leaf mulch around plants, be sure plants are compatible with decayed leaves and the fungi they may hold.

3.   Before using the leaf mulch around plants, be sure plants are compatible with decayed leaves and the fungi they might hold.

4.   Bleeding heart bursts through the leaf mulch in April and appears perfectly happy with almost no direct light.

5.   Collect a big pile in the corner of your property where they will break down into valuable leaf mulch over the next year or two.

6.   In the flower bed below the deck, where she could delight in their color, promising green daffodil shoots nudged through the winter leaf mulch.

7.   They keep digesting the shredded leaf mulch so that there are now several inches of loose black topsoil where once there was only newspaper.

8.   Three inches of leaf mulch lessens plant heaving and provides an attractive appearance.