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 ...

Q: I was wondering if you could help me by providing the pros and cons to different types of ground cover. We have some areas in our yard where we have smaller perennials, trees, etc. and the area ...

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 ...

Four cubic yards of mulch in the backyard and one more to go. Last week’s nice weather had us putting down fresh mulch over the gardens. We hadn’t added mulch since August 2022, a week before a ...

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 ...

: A cable company is laying new cable in our area. In the process the workers are mulching lots of tree limbs, primarily Ashe junipers. Would this make good mulch? I have heard that mulch from cedars ...

During our monthly Master Gardener meeting, I invited a fellow Master Gardener to drop by my home Friday morning to pick nectarines from my two trees. She arrived at our agreed-upon time of 9 a.m., as ...