If your flower beds need a little something extra to fill them in, check out these ground covers that can make great ...

A single straw harvest removes between five and 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre and between 0.5 and five pounds of phosphorus ...

She said: “When you use ... mulch roses? Mulching is an easy way to help plants grow stronger and improve soil health without having to spend ages in the garden. Adding mulch to your flower ...

Pecan hulls make a lovely mulch in a perennial garden or shrub bed. They lay flat and, at least in my experiences, they ...

It turns out that sometimes the best thing to do in the garden is nothing, as there is one job gardeners are being urged to stop doing as it helps their lawns and flowers grow. There is lots to do ...

If you can't "learn to live with them," Neil Sperry suggests a ground cover that makes mowing around them unnecessary.

Making tunnels using cattle panels as support over beds and then draping with greenhouse sheet plastic or row cover is great for warming up a planting bed. BLACK MULCH: Applying a sheet of black ...

You should use mulch for your garden, but what’s the best mulch for flower beds to get? Are you looking for a worthy investment that is good in most aspects? Like others, The Four Winds Trading ...

If your garden is full of totally black mushy plants ... When raking leaves, remember to use them as mulch in flower and shrub beds or put them in your compost pile. Pine needles are great ...

Dear Neil: I’m seeing the landscape guys putting mounds of mulch around tree trunks in town. Is that really a good idea? It seems like it would cause decay in the wood of the trunks.