Rain, wind, and winter storms can shift all the topsoil away from your garden, which can deprive your plants of nutrient-rich ...

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

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

However, rubber mulch has many disadvantages, ranging from inconvenience to health hazards. The rubber mulch can smell, ...

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 ...

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

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

As fall approaches, you may feel like it's time to hang up the gardening hat and take a break until spring returns. However, by mulching in the fall, you can knock out one of the biggest gardening ...

Gardeners are encouraged to begin winter preparations for their roses now, using a natural yet very effective method to keep ...

Those toadstools, puffballs, earth-stars and other fungi springing up now can alarm gardeners. Digging out fungi or applying ...

For homeowners, land managers, and public agencies seeking a potentially more sustainable solution, Bigfoot Forestry, LLC, a growing franchise company focused on forest mulching and ecological care, ...

Clean-up is an essential fall chore, but what it means — and how much you should actually do — has shifted in recent years.