A long-lasting mulch option can boost your garden's look and performance, but it comes with trade-offs worth weighing before ...

Virtually all types of mulch for landscaping can give planting beds an attractive, manicured, and well-maintained appearance. This gardening must-have also helps minimize weed growth and prevent soil ...

Herb Clarke, the venerable TV weather forecaster-turned-radio garden expert in Philadelphia, recently offered some advice on mulch. His thoughts: Mulch is relatively new to the garden scene, and ...

Probably one of the most important reasons to use mulch is to control weeds that seem to continually come up in your landscape beds. Mulch also controls erosion that could develop if the soils between ...

Mulch is a blanket, an organic material applied to bare soil around plants. Effective mulches include shredded hardwood bark, pine needles, coarse compost, and shredded native tree trimmings. Mulching ...

While it’s common knowledge that cedar chips deter moths from munching on your sweaters and other wool items in summer storage, cedar is also useful in deterring other pests both inside and outside.

Lincoln, Neb. — A multi-disciplinary team of researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will conduct a project transforming manure and cedar mulch from waste to worth. The project is funded by ...

Q: Is cedar mulch harmful to bedding plants? I have been using it, and my flowers seem to do poorly. — R.H., The Woodlands A: It shouldn't be harmful. Perhaps the soil could use a boost. The best way ...