It’s autumn, and leaves are falling. You will have less work in your yard and garden next year if you take time this fall to do some cleanup. But you don’t want to clean up everything. A sanitized garden won’t provide food and shelter for birds and beneficial insects.
Here is an infographic with quick tips for fall garden cleanup.
More info
- Do’s and don’ts for fall garden cleanup, an earlier In Harmony blog post, provides more details on the above tips.
- Preparing your garden for winter, another In Harmony blog post, talks about cleanup as well as other fall garden tasks such as adding mulch, cleanup pruning, and care for your tools and equipment.
- Six reasons to NOT clean up the garden this fall, Savvy Gardening.
- Leave the leaves: winter habitat protection, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
- Fall garden cleanup with pollinators in mind, Almanac.
