With fall and winter weather on the horizon, mulch offers another key benefit: insulating plant and tree roots from the cold.

Mulch comes in many shapes and forms and can be used in a variety of ways in your yard and garden. Here are some of the best ...

Applying mulch to bare areas around your landscape and surrounding your trees is best practice, offering benefits such as water retention and temperature regulation. Most of the commercially ...

Mulch serves an important role in the yard and garden, but it’s not something that should be reserved for springtime. We’re ...

Here are a couple of November ideas that will help your trees and other plants get through the winter with less stress, plus an easy outdoor container planting idea that you will thank me for next ...

Residential outdoor water use contributes significantly to water consumption nationwide. Given our dry conditions in 2024, it’s more important than ever to reduce our water usage outside.

"We recommend to mulch leaves because we can return nutrients ... up into the atmosphere," said Trappe. Similar to wood chips, mulched leaves can help soil retain moisture around flower beds ...

A layer of mulch about 3 to 4 inches thick is best. Good organic mulches include wood or bark chips, shredded bark, pine straw, evergreen boughs, clean straw or ground corncobs. Ideally ...

Roses are fairly easy to care for but there are certain things gardeners should be doing to prepare them for the cold, frosty ...

Mulch suppresses weed growth ... Shredded or chipped wood: Mixed wood chips offer a wide range of options. Some shredded mulches are dyed red, brown and black; others are all natural.

Yes! Leaf mulch is excellent. So is a fresh layer of bark mulch, if you happen to have wood chips on hand. Shred the mulch layer so it breaks down more easily and doesn’t create a dense ...