Get outside and check on how your garden beds are doing this winter. Eye-balling the garden will help you determine if you ...

Shoveling snow onto garden beds can protect plants during winter. Snow acts as a blanket, insulating the soil and preventing ...

May is a month when mulch piles seem to magically appear in driveways all over Pennsylvania suburbia. It’s almost become a rite of spring to get out there and spread a fresh couple of inches of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hands in garden gloves holding mulch. There are many schools of thought regarding garden mulch. The debate continues as to when, ...

Sometimes, a seemingly gentle nudge can hit the rawest of nerves. And it seems that last week’s gentle diatribe on the constantly perplexing practice of volcano mulching was just that kind of nudge.

There are many different types of mulch available to homeowners, and each has its best use cases. For example, some mulches are designed for aesthetics alone, while others can actually help plants ...

I love to garden, but I don’t like to do work needlessly. If I can find a gardening technique that saves me time, effort and money — well, I’m there. And you can’t find a better example of this than ...

In a recent column, I proposed mulches composed of living plants as an environmentally-friendly alternative for suppressing weeds, enhancing garden plant growth and nurturing the soil. I suspect, ...

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 ...

When you see any of these indications, you know it's time to freshen up your mulch.

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 ...