Florimulch or Enviromulch or a high quality dyed mulch are my top choices for mulching your gardens. They are an easy way to ...

Companion plants can be grown in such a way that each plant supports the other. Strawberries, as it happens, are friends with ...

Picture this: a crisp autumn afternoon, trees blazing in shades of amber and gold, leaves tumbling lazily to the ground. Most ...

Mulch helps suppress weeds, keeps soil moist, and helps regulate soil temperatures. Adding a second layer of mulch after the first frost in the fall will offer plants additional winter protection.

Smaller landscape shrubs are prone to damage from deer, rabbits and voles (field mice) feeding over winter. The best defense ...

It's the season of falling leaves, and you might be tempted to use your pile as mulch for your garden and around the yard.

Indiana's freezing temperatures mean Hoosier plants may be at risk for cold damage. Here are expert tips on how to protect ...

By JESSICA DAMIANO There may be a 20-foot-tall skeleton on your next-door neighbor’s lawn and zombies in the yard across the street, but the real horrors often lie in unmarked graves in the ...

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

No person may place or permit placement of any food or other edible material outdoors which may be reasonably expected to ...

For a lazy gardener natives are a godsend, requiring less fertilizing, less water and less attention in general.

Place them around your vulnerable plants and keep their roots and leaves safe, and slugs and snails will be repelled by them, ...