{"id":35,"date":"2026-09-10T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/2026\/09\/10\/your-fall-cleanup-checklist\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:15:34","slug":"your-fall-cleanup-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/2026\/09\/10\/your-fall-cleanup-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Your fall cleanup checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A good fall cleanup is the best thing you can do for next spring&#039;s lawn and garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep leaves off the lawn. A thick layer smothers grass and invites snow mould, so mow lighter layers into mulch and rake or blow the rest into beds or the compost pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cut back perennials that tend to rot, such as hostas and daylilies, but leave seed heads on coneflowers and grasses for birds and winter interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finish with a last mow at around 3 inches, a fall feeding for the lawn, a fresh layer of mulch on beds and a blow-out of the irrigation lines before the first hard freeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good fall cleanup is the best thing you can do for next spring&#039;s lawn and garden. Keep leaves off the lawn. A thick&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seasonal-care","tag-cleanup","tag-fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-landscaping-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}