Both pine straw or wood mulch make an excellent mulch for your garden depending on the situation. Here's how to decide when to use pine straw or mulch.

If adding new mulch will make a thick layer of more than 3 inches, you’ll need to remove at least some of the old mulch. If ...

If you've been considering choosing a new ground cover alternative in your yard or garden, you may have come across rubber mulch as a potential option. This material is made up of cut-up tires and is ...

Every spring, we should take a look at our landscape to determine what clean-up or other preparations we need to do before the heat of the summer gets here. Cleaning up dead plant material, leaves, or ...

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 ...

When you see any of these indications, you know it's time to freshen up your mulch.

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 ...