Get outside and check on how your garden beds are doing this winter. Eye-balling the garden will help you determine if you ...

Starting a vegetable garden can be a rewarding prospect for any homeowner. In addition to having fresh veggies on the ready, digging in the dirt has big health benefits. Though yanking out weeds might ...

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › If you haven ...

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 ...

Covering garden beds in winter protects against frost damage or soil erosion. The best time to cover beds is after the ground freezes but before heavy snow. Lightweight mulch such as shredded bark is ...

One of the main reasons you use mulch in your yard and garden is to stop weeds from growing. However, simply applying mulch and leaving it to do its own thing isn't a surefire way to keep unwanted ...

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 ...

May is a month when mulch piles seem to magically appear in driveways all over Pennsylvania suburbia. It’s almost become a rite of spring to get out there and spread a fresh couple of inches of ...

Sometimes, a seemingly gentle nudge can hit the rawest of nerves. And it seems that last week’s gentle diatribe on the constantly perplexing practice of volcano mulching was just that kind of nudge.

Snow protects your garden beds like winter mulch. Trees might need some help though ...