Don´t keep your dead leaves on top of the soil 
It could bring bugs and fungus…Ain´t nobody got time for that! 
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Bugs and fungus, sounds like something I want for my living soil.
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Yeah but only the good ones. Not the ones that eat your plant I am sorry but I am 100 % sure about this…
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I’m joining in on this one. I toss all my yellowing and dying leaves aside or use them for a fermenting/composting. For this last seed round outdoors I purposely left them on the top of the soil.
My thought was to throw any and everything at the plants making seeds and let them defend themselves. The good seeds will grow and the weak ones will die.
Otherwise. Cleanliness is next to godliness, so they say.
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I am sure you are right part of the time and wrong part of the time. (depending on growing method)
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i need more mulch porn from you dude😂
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I agree to leave dead leafs or any other dead foliage and not keep a your grow area clean only attracts bugs and fungus.
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it depends if you’re running notill or something it’s just mulch and food for your worms but if youre growing indoors without worms and living soil it could attract unwanted bugs
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I am recently converted. I purchased predatory mites,
Built them a home…
And spread their home on top of the plants.
Fungus gnats are not making any headway these days! 
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Didn’t intend to start a debate. I was just being a smart ass, should have used italics.
But my opinion is it depends on how you grow. Ebb and flow with synthetic nutrients it would be a terrible idea. If the soil has any life, then the leaves will just turn back into soil.
My opinion is this annual plant loose it’s leaves. Those leaves will feed the next generation. Circle of life and all that hippy shit.
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