18 2009-10-13T02:33:52Z false I have a ready supply of as many leaves as I want, and I just found that I can rent a chipper to shred them for not much money at all ($20 for a whole day) from a store that's 1/4 a mile away (so I can walk to the store and wheel the chipper home, and don't have to put an awful dirty machine in my car). I won't have any trouble getting all the mulch I want this winter. And yet.... I'm having second thoughts. I've had HUGE problems this year with pill bugs and slugs. And I've read that one reason people have problems with pill bugs and slugs is winter mulching, which provides warm toasty spots for their eggs to overwinter. So what should I do? Protect my soil by mulching? Or hopefully kill the pill bugs and slugs by not mulching? I'm leaning toward the latter, but am undecided. 3 false 69568 false false false Entry 2009-10-12T04:00:00Z DMY Public 2009-10-13T13:10:40Z 1713 Cloudy 46 F