Permies Poll: Do you mulch your garden before winter?

I mulch my strawberry beds prior to the wintertime but realize that I do not intentionally put anything down on my usual growing beds. I've been progressing towards a cover crop system instead of having to intentional mulch but I wonder... what do you do?

Thank you in advance for your votes and your thoughts.

I mulch with wood chips year round any time I can get them, but right now is one of the best times to mulch fruit trees, fruit bushes and perennial vegetables in the Northwest. Sometimes I  use compost and cardboard as mulch as well. Sawdust is good for some mushrooms, cardboard is good mulch for landscape morels.

I always try to get some fava beans, clover and peas for cover crops planted now, too.

Last vote in apple poll was on October 6, 2025

growing year round, don't really have winter mulching needs.
I do mulch depending on water needs (when it's dry and I need more water retention) and according to snail/slug pressure (when it's really wet, mulch becomes Snail Paradise and I'll lose everything I have if I leave the mulch out).