A practical guide to garden mulch: learn organic and inorganic types, benefits for moisture, temperature, and weeds, plus ...

Expert advice on selecting the right mulch for your garden, from compost and bark to farmyard manure and straw ...

Gardening expert explains the key thing to check when buying mulch for spring, with advice on choosing between compost, bark, manure and other options ...

After a season of heavy storms, one homeowner watched every rainstorm strip the mulch out of the flower beds and send it sluicing across the walk. The fix turned out to be less about buying more mulch ...

We all have experienced the recent weather whiplash, but we still have spring on the mind. One of our favorite parts of spring is seeing the first signs of life, ...

You've taken the time to rake up all the fallen leaves in your backyard; it seems a waste to simply discard them. Instead, ...

Weeds steal water, light, and nutrients from a vegetable garden. Learn the best ways to keep weeds out of your vegetable garden for good.

If you see a plant labelled as a ground cover, run away. Often marketed as the easy solution for choking out weeds, eliminating the need to mow, or covering up a problem area, the truth is that ground ...

Kick off planting in your garden this spring by adding organic matter and making sure the soil has the right texture for ...

David Stanford-Beale, doctor of entomology, is the expert with the details ...