Mulch has many benefits in the garden, like retaining soil moisture, insulating roots, and deterring weeds. Spreading a layer of mulch also makes your landscape look tidier. But there are so many ...

A visit to the local garden center finds several different mulches but not all of them. Mulch could be those chunks of bark or maybe the long stringy shredded tree portions. There are also rubber, ...

When choosing the best type of mulch for your garden, you have a wealth of organic and inorganic products that you can select. One of these is natural pine bark, which is a popular mulching option as ...

If you’ve ever raked up a pile of fallen pine needles, you’ve probably wondered: “Can I just… use these?” Spoiler alert: you ...

Pine straw mulch, the dried byproduct of fallen pine needles, is a popular mulch because it is lightweight yet remains stable and cohesive. Mulch is an indispensable part of landscaping and gardening.

Mulch is a blanket, an organic material applied to bare soil around plants. Effective mulches include shredded hardwood bark, pine needles, coarse compost, and shredded native tree trimmings. Mulching ...

For more than 20 years we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed redwood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black wood chips have come into ...

I recently had someone help me clean out my landscape beds and put in fresh pine bark mulch. I suggested that they put down about 4 inches of mulch. Was that too much? For very light mulch, such as ...

Almost every gardening expert will recommend using mulch around new and existing plantings, but why? Mulch has many benefits in the garden, but it can also cause problems if used improperly. In nature ...

Question: I’d like to replace my shredded cypress mulch with something that will decompose at a slower rate. What should I use? Answer: I would suggest pine bark. It’s available in different sizes and ...

Though mulch's main purpose is to preserve moisture and deter weed growth, it also has an aesthetic function, and so the available choices are sometimes the source of disagreement. Some prefer to take ...