Evaluate the organic and inorganic options below that work best for your landscape. Organic Mulches Organic mulches are natural materials that break down in the soil. In the short term, they offer ...

Bushes in yard mulched with black mulch from a wagon - Ozgurcoskun/Getty Images With so many types of mulch on the market, it can feel impossible to know how to best use mulch in your garden. The best ...

When it comes to covers for your garden soil, pine straw may be right. You'll only know for sure once you've compared it to ...

As part of Mizzou Botanic Garden's leaf-mulching program, fallen leaves are shredded as they are vacuumed by the Landscape ...

It has been hot and dry, but we received some rain. We need to be doing things in our landscape and garden to conserve our plants and water as well. The simplest method is using mulches. Mulch is any ...

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 ...

Spring planting in mulch helps control weeds, including reducing the need to weed as much. Few weeds will come up through a 4-inch layer of hay. In spring we plant several crops into hay mulch to help ...

Covering the ground with a blanket of mulch is one of the easiest, quickest and most effective things you can do to protect, enrich and maintain the beauty and health of your garden. That may not come ...

I think I’d be hard pressed to find a gardener unaware of mulch, that stuff you put under plants to help keep down weeds and make your landscape beds look more defined. But there’s more to mulch than ...