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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mulching is a key garden task, but many gardeners miss the mark. Learn what mulch is, how to apply it, and what to avoid.

ot sure what kind of mulch to use in your landscape? You're not alone. The choice wasn't easy not so long ago when your options were basically cypress mulch, pine bark and stones. Now gardeners are ...

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, ...

The Ohio Department of Agriculture today, May 9, issued a stop-sale order for a number of 2- and 3-cubic-foot bags of mulch produced by Columbus-based Ohio Mulch Supply. The department initially ...

For more than 20 years we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed redwood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come into ...