Greendays Gardening Panel: Leaves

11/03/2009 at 10:00 a.m.

Autumn colors are pretty, but once the leaves come down, what should you do with them? Raked leaves can fill up a yard waste bin quickly. Are there other ways to use leaves? Can they be beneficial to your garden? Leaves are also good for birds and critters. Should you be leaving some leaves where they fall?

Guest(s)

Marty Wingate is a writer about gardens and travel whose work appears on SeattlePostGlobe.org; in magazines; on her own Website, martywingate.com; and at her blog, passportsandseedpackets.com.

Greg Rabourn is co–host of King County's "Yard Talk." He helps landowners in the Raging River and Patterson Creek watersheds practice sustainable landscape solutions.

Willi Galloway is the West Coast editor of Organic Gardening. She is also the host of a new gardening and cooking Website called digginfood.com.