You've taken the time to rake up all the fallen leaves in your backyard; it seems a waste to simply discard them. Instead, turn them into useful garden mulch.

A garden never whispers. It announces itself the moment someone steps into the yard, and surprisingly, mulch often sets the ...

Landscape fabric can help suppress weeds but deteriorates over time. Learn more about using and removing landscape fabric before adding fresh mulch to landscape beds.

Mulch has been a hot topic in the horticultural world as of late. A scathing essay by Radovan Hajek, a co-owner of US Perennials Nursery, on the American aesthetic of too much mulch and too few plants ...

Provides nitrogen, holds water like a sponge and slowly releases it into the soil, a weed suppressant, slow decomposition, slug control, deters deer, keeps soil cool in the summer and warm in the fall ...

Mulch does a lot of work in garden beds, but it doesn't last forever. Over time, subtle changes can signal that the ...

Probably one of the most important reasons to use mulch is to control weeds that seem to continually come up in your landscape beds. Mulch also controls erosion that could develop if the soils between ...

For many homeowners, spreading mulch is part of the ritual of tidying up the garden after the growing season. Some will use landscape fabric under the mulch, in the hope that it will prevent weeds ...

Thinking about laying landscape fabric to stop weeds for good? Carol Barany explains why it may do more harm than help — and what to use instead for healthier soil ...

Between the planters and the soil bags, plastic is hard to avoid in gardening. In fact, some supplies you may not realize are plastic are adding to the problem.