Switching up your yard usually means ripping up the grass, tilling, and fertilizing the soil to prep for new vegetation, but why not just cover it up? Sheet mulching uses a simple form of composting ...

In my recent column about lawn care, I stated that many gardeners are trading in expanses of lawn for garden beds. Creating more space for flowers, edibles and native plants is an admirable goal, but ...

San Diego is paradise. Warm days, no snow, minimal frost, and an average of 146 sunny days surrounded by 117 partly sunny days. That leaves only 84 days without some sun. Not counting this weird ...

Peter Richards plants vegetables in sheet mulch, and Joellen Dimond plants a container herb garden. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, local gardener Peter Richards shows how to ...

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 ...

Mulch does matter, especially here in the Yakima Valley where we are experiencing hot weather, drought conditions, and water strains and restrictions. Today we look at important reasons to add mulch ...

A big part of gardening is finding solutions to plant-related challenges. I found myself in that position, faced with a hillside yard that was too steep to safely mow, and too large to easily dig up ...