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

Compost can be used for mulch. A few years ago, a gardening friend suggested I place a layer of compost in my flower beds before mulching with my usual shredded bark mulch. As my garden seemed happy ...

Adding mulch to your garden is invaluable for controlling weeds and keeping the soil moist. While bark chips are probably ...

The best way to deal with compost in the winter is to maintain a worm bin. The worms do the composting for you as they digest ...

If the smell of fresh mulch is in the air, it must be early spring in Greater Columbus. As soon the snow melts and the first warm sunny day appears, gardeners head for their local garden center where ...

Each year, those with a green thumb spread out mulch to protect their gardens, plants and trees. Mulch has lots of benefits for plants including keeping them warm, protecting moisture and preventing ...

It’s mid-August, which means that between harvesting and processing, gardeners also need to be thinking about the transition to fall. That includes two important steps: top dressing with compost and ...

A rose by any other name may still be a rose, but mulches need defining. There are 17 different materials considered on the University of California’s Statewide Integrated Pest Management website, and ...

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

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 ...

SOCIAL DISTANCE: When planting multiple dahlia tubers, it's best to keep them about 12-18 inches apart, as dahlias get quite large. Photo courtesy of HummingBlooms Flower Farm Hi there neighbors, ...