Compost and wood chips make an excellent team when it comes to creating a potting mix. Compost adds essential nutrients and enhances soil fertility, while wood chips work like perlite or vermiculite, ...

Nurtures soil with rich decay. Mulch does matter, especially here in the Yakima Valley where we are experiencing hot weather, ...

Landscape fabric can harm healthy soil by suffocating beneficial organisms and disrupting natural nutrient cycles. Plastic fabric may also pollute the soil with microplastics and hurt marine life ...

Heatwaves can be a challenging time for your garden, as both plants and wildlife struggle with the soaring temperatures.

5 – Where can I buy bark or wood chippings for my garden? You’ll find bark and wood chips at all good garden centres, nurseries, and DIY retailers. Look for bags labelled for mulching or decorative ...

Lidl is selling 40 litre bags of wood chips for just £3.49 Credit: Lidl For only £3.49 the garden buy is an essential in summer to help keep weeds at bay. A 40 litre bag of decorative wood chips ...

Organic mulches mimic the constant shedding of sticks, branches, bark, and leaves that occurs in forest ecosystems. Perennial plants evolved steeped in layers upon layers of plant litter and have ...

TAOS — Every wood chip, bark strip and beam at Olguin’s Sawmill and Firewood is put to use. The scraps of bark-covered wood left behind from making vigas, latillas and beams are cut into ...

Wood chips can also be composted 50/50 with "green" materials, such as grass clippings or manure, to balance out the ratio of carbon to nitrogen. After "cooking" for a while, the resulting compost ...

Wood chips can also be composted 50/50 with "green" materials, such as grass clippings or manure, to balance out the ratio of carbon to nitrogen. After "cooking" for a while, the resulting compost ...

Mulch and wood chips are good for the garden and have different uses. It is usually used as a cover in garden beds, with its light plant matter that is easily decomposable like leaves. Wood chips are ...