Beautiful as they are, colorful autumn leaves can be a real clean up process. Instead of bagging them up or letting them blow away, you can turn them into a valuable resource for your garden. Leaf ...

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Do you utilize mulch in the garden? If you do, that’s great! If you don’t, you should consider adding mulch to the garden, as there are many benefits. Benefits of mulch include preserving moisture, ...

Bushes in yard mulched with black mulch from a wagon - Ozgurcoskun/Getty Images With so many types of mulch on the market, it can feel impossible to know how to best use mulch in your garden. The best ...

Mulch is an essential element of any permaculture garden. This video shares 11 natural mulches perfect for permaculture growing, including the best options for annuals versus perennials and key ...

Although not much is going on in the garden when winter approaches, there are a few tasks that can help protect your garden and get it ready for healthy growth next season. The unexpected time you'll ...

I love to garden, but I don’t like to do work needlessly. If I can find a gardening technique that saves me time, effort and money — well, I’m there. And you can’t find a better example of this than ...

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 ...

Mulching is the fourth Florida Friendly Landscaping principal, and it’s really a great way to install some additional efficiency into your landscaping. There are quite a few reasons for installing ...

ROCHESTER — A weekend of glorious fall weather provided ample opportunity for me to enjoy my backyard kitchen garden. Getting my fingers dirty in the soil, growing food, then gathering the last of the ...

Mulch is so basic to gardening that it’s become a verb. To mulch. It can even be conjugated. I mulch, he mulches, nous mulchons. In fact, mulch is a noun derived from some kind of old German or Middle ...