Florimulch or Enviromulch or a high quality dyed mulch are my top choices for mulching your gardens. They are an easy way to ...

Mulching improves the look of garden beds and the yard, helps soil retain moisture, and acts as an insulator. While it's a ...

The main reason to use ChipDrop is that it’s free, or at least insanely discounted. For comparison, buying one cubic yard of uncolored hardwood mulch in bulk costs about $28, depending on where you ...

The first few weeks of April are ideal for turning lawn or bare space into garden beds. You’ll have the soil ready just in time for prime planting season. One caveat, though. Never dig soil when it’s ...

That’s a decision that growing numbers of gardeners are adopting. Instead of hauling in endless bags of bark or shredded and dyed wood, they fill the empty soil in their gardens with perennial plants.

Mulch is commonly used to help suppress weeds and to hold in soil moisture in dry times. There are many different kinds of mulch, and it is important to get the right kind, and to apply it properly if ...

It's that time of year again to see how some of gardening's new products fared under real-life testing in the Over the Garden Fence Horticultural Trial Laboratory (also known as My Back Yard). The ...

Do not pile mulch up at the base of a tree. This photo shows improper mulching around the tree. (Rose Baca - Staff Photographer) Orozco shows how to properly mulch around a tree. Choose mulch that won ...

“You are what you eat” is an old saying, and it points the way to picking the right mulch for your landscape. It’s common sense that if you add several inches of anything to your gardens each year it ...

The state yesterday halted the sale of 1.5-cubic-foot bags of mulch produced by Ohio Mulch, after random tests found that the bags didn’t contain as much mulch as the packaging indicated. The bags ...