Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deer tick on a leaf in the garden - Ladislav Kubeš/Getty Images Ticks are a particularly unpleasant garden pest. Not only do ...

Mulching is one of the most effective ways to keep your garden and yard areas healthy and also looking nice. Choosing the best mulch for your garden can help keep the temperatures stable around your ...

Penn State University researchers claim that consumers buying bags of cypress mulch might not be getting what they think. Using a new method of analyzing wood, the researchers found that bags of ...

It's durable and organic. But some experts say it involves logging in sensitive wetlands—and that there are better options. Gardeners love cypress mulch for a number of reasons. It's organic and lays ...

Before you load the back of the SUV with bags of cypress mulch from the local garden center, think about Florida's wetlands and how dressing up your yard may be harming them. Several Treasure Coast ...

Two garden terms you might often see mentioned in these columns are “compost” (decaying organic matter) to enrich our sandy soil and “mulch” (material spread around plants to reduce evaporation, ...

If you’ve read Michael Behar’s “Mulch Madness,” you already know that the sale of cypress mulch is threatening to destroy Louisiana’s best defense against hurricanes and one of the country’s most ...

The cypress forests of Louisiana have suffered much devastation from human development, coastal erosion, and exploitation by the lumber industry. Now, vast tracts are being clear cut for the ...