Some well-intentioned fall gardening chores can damage plants, weaken bulbs, harm wildlife, and rob you of next year's blooms ...

Your compost pile is almost certainly too cold to kill anything, which means the blighted tomato vines you drag over to it ...

Also cut down any plants that were diseased this year, and completely clear their beds of fallen leaves and other plant parts ...

In conventional gardening wisdom, fall used to be the time to thoroughly clean up flower beds. However, with wildlife habitat loss driving biodiversity decline and a dramatically ...

The way you manage your garden in autumn can have a big impact on the larger ecosystem and biodiversity.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dengarden and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Fall garden cleanup can be oddly satisfying. After months of ...

Think of fall garden cleanup as curation rather than clearing: observe first, identify a task's purpose, and intervene only ...

Plenty of garden pests spend winter as eggs or dormant adults in old vines, twigs, and leaves. Remove them during fall cleanup – but spare the helpful insects.

As fall cleanup begins, gardener Mary Agria reflects on what thrived, what struggled and what changes will shape next ...

Fall is garden cleanup time, but that doesn’t mean you should turn your property into a barren wasteland. Leaving certain perennials standing over winter can be beneficial. Others, however, need to go ...

Fall is garden cleanup time, but that doesn’t mean you should turn your property into a barren wasteland.