Corn is a great bet for a quick and rewarding summer harvest. This fast-growing crop performs well in USDA hardiness zones ...

Ensure lush glistening green landscaping through the winter by giving this shrub a properly applied layer of mulch before the ...

The crisp air, the slow fade of summer flowers, and the delicious anticipation of cooler-weather crops – is there anything ...

While you're cozying up during winter, your garden is working, growing cold-hardy plants and prepping for spring. The mulch ...

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While a fall application of mulch can be beneficial to plants, we have seen a growing trend of piling mulch much deeper than ...

Before making leaf mold, you’ll have to decide where to contain it. You can enclose leaves in a chicken-wire surround, pile ...

Shredded Mulch. Image by Dvortygirl, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Mulch functions as more than just an aesthetic ...

It has been a warm fall season so far and I am enjoying working in my garden. There is no frost in the weather forecast, so I suspect frost will be later than usual this year. When a killing frost ...

As you’re prepping your garden for its winter slumber, you might want to add an unexpected to-do to your fall gardening checklist: mulching. While garden mulching is often associated with spring ...

Wood mulch and wood chips will mat down to make a firm but spongy surface for your garden paths and around playsets. Pine straw is too slippery to walk on, so skip it when mulching these high-traffic ...