WASHINGTON – Mulch is practical – it holds moisture and controls weeds. It is also a design element that helps give your landscape a clean, unified look. What mulch should you use on your landscape ...

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 ...

What kind of mulch do you recommend? There are so many choices. We've tended to use the shredded stuff. Maybe it's time for a change, so I am asking your advice. A: Mulch is one of my favorite topics.

You've weeded. You've planted. And if you mulched, you've put to use a practical gardening tool no Houston garden should be without. But which mulch is best? Their texture, color and price vary, and ...

I've been looking for the right mulch to control weeds in my landscape. It's a very windy site. I tried using cedar chips last year, but most of them blew away. I was wondering about grass clippings?

Bare soil is a bad thing, so any natural mulch is better than no mulch. Why am I so negative about some mulches and positive about others, especially shredded native tree trimmings? Let’s review the ...

Autumn is knocking on the door, an optimal time for certain annual tasks in the garden -- reseeding a threadbare lawn, planting trees and shrubs, and dividing tired perennials. But these tasks seem to ...

Ah, fall is in the air, along with the stench of shredded hardwood mulch newly laid on top of soil. Mulch volcanoes won’t be far behind.Soon, landscapes across the fair metropolis will be marked by ...