Both pine straw or wood mulch make an excellent mulch for your garden depending on the situation. Here's how to decide when ...

Potent Psilocybe mushrooms are thriving in city mulch beds in the Pacific Northwest—hinting that their future is tied to ...

Following a dry summer, gardeners will be even keener than usual to lavish composts, manures and other bulky organic matter on their garden to feed soil and plants and to boost moisture-holding ...

Mulch helps suppress weeds, keeps soil moist, and helps regulate soil temperatures. Adding a second layer of mulch after the ...

Just like your spring and summer mulching helped keep moisture in the soil, your fall and winter mulch accomplishes the same task.

Buying a home in an HOA neighborhood can feel like joining a well-dressed bureaucracy. The lawns are uniform, the mulch is ...

The combination of fallen leaves and grass clippings and/or spent plants from the yard also makes the perfect recipe for ...

Typha is an aquatic plant that functions as a bio accumulator. Typha plants naturally filter nutrient runoff before it makes ...

In the past 30 years, Davenport has turned 3 million cubic yards of treated sewage sludge and yard waste into useable compost ...

Whatever method you choose, keep the tubers in a cool, dark place. An unheated basement or heated garage usually works.

Hydrangeas are a popular choice for many gardeners, thanks to their large, colourful blooms. But to ensure they thrive and ...