If you mulch in the spring, your soil will take longer to warm up for your summer vegetables. I’ve always read that is better to leave it until June. Also, fallen leaves are not fertilizer as they do not contain nitrogen… Just carbon. But they make an OK mulch.
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If you mulch in the spring, your soil will take longer to warm up for your summer vegetables. I’ve always read that is better to leave it until June. Also, fallen leaves are not fertilizer as they do not contain nitrogen… Just carbon. But they make an OK mulch.