The annual crop of falling leaves presents a great opportunity for bags of free soil conditioner this month and even if you don’t have your own trees, there may be opportunities to collect them from friends and family. Once gathered you’ll need another essential – fungi – to turn the leaves into the best mulch that money can’t buy. So turn to page 32 to read Ben Vanheems’ advice on ways to make your best-ever leafmould. Fungi feature again on page 75, this time the edible kind, as keen organic gardener Wendy Pillar shows how to grow fungi on logs.