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🍂Leaves! If you're lucky enough to have them, use 🍂Leaves! If you're lucky enough to have them, use them in your garden! Shredded or chopped, they are a fantastic, organic, FREE, mulch material.

🌬️ They'll protect your soil from winter erosion and compaction, and help insulate the soil.

🪱 Leaves also provide food for soil organisms...which show up rather quickly!

Don't bag them, use them! Your garden soil will thank you. 🍁🤎

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