Winter mulching helps regulate soil temperature and protect plant roots — but it's only beneficial to certain types of plants ...

Before winter closes in, do one last thing for all the trees, shrubs and other plants in your garden: Make sure they have a ...

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

Spring planting in mulch helps control weeds, including reducing the need to weed as much. Few weeds will come up through a 4-inch layer of hay. In spring we plant several crops into hay mulch to help ...

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 ...

Should you use shredded paper as garden mulch? It might sound like a quirky, even questionable idea at first—but don’t toss ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 92-97 (6 pages) Certain types of organic mulches spread on the ground in a palm planting with St. Augustine grass, Stenotaphrum secundatum, ...

Spring is just around the corner and you’re probably already thinking about how you’re going to hate dealing with all of those weeds. Hand weeding is great exercise, but it gets pretty tiring after a ...