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placing the tubers on tilled soil and covering them with dried leaves instead of soil. The potates grow clean above the ground and are a breeze to harvest.
Needle-leaf evergreens such as pines naturally shed their interior needles in fall. Rake up the needles and use for mulch.
Pine needles are good insulation - full of air space. They insulate the soil and make an ideal winter mulch for perennial flowers, small fruit plants, and acid-loving shrubs and trees. Pine needles prevent alternate freezing and thawing which may heave shallow-rooted plants our of the ground, a problem especially serious on heavy soils.
Remove weak or crowded branches of evergreens in the late fall, as a strong framework deters snow damage. The boughs you glean from pruning can first be used for holiday decorations then recycled as winter mulch on perennial beds. One inch of pine needles or shredded leaves spread over strawberry plants makes an ideal overwintering mulch. Small branches laid over the mulch will keep it in place over winter.
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