For more than 20 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come into ...

Compost is costly, I can’t deny it. It’s also been in short supply as more of us are tending our gardens and nurturing our soil. Bark, on the other hand, is relatively cheap and plentiful. If compost ...

As the air cools and leaves start to tumble, gardeners everywhere begin their fall rituals—raking, pruning, and tucking their ...

If you’re looking for a free alternative to bark mulch or are tired of bagging leaves, consider a method used by professional horticulturalists and gardening experts – mulched leaves. Some experts who ...

For 17 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens and show beds, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come ...

In a recent column, I proposed mulches composed of living plants as an environmentally-friendly alternative for suppressing weeds, enhancing garden plant growth and nurturing the soil. I suspect, ...

Sometimes even the best innovations have unexpected consequences. For example, one of the most important and successful pieces of environmental legislation in the history of the United States ...

Discoloration, thinning out, diseases, and excessive weeds are important signs that you need to replace your mulch. Pest ...

Although the benefits of mulching garden plants are many, wood mulch that has been improperly stockpiled can lead to plant injury or even death. Young herbaceous plants are the most susceptible to ...

PLAISTOW — Watch out for your bark mulch. The ubiquitous material found on commercial and residential properties throughout the town, and indeed the country, can be highly flammable, and fire Chief ...