This short video describes how my quail turns mulch into an awesome fertiliser/mulch for my fruit and vegetable gardens. Garden mulch can be expensive but I like to get two uses out of my mulch by ...

We all love the look of a freshly mulched garden bed or tree well. Besides looking great, there are quite a few other benefits to mulch. Mulch can suppress weeds by blocking the light that some seeds ...

When you tidy up the garden after the winter, don’t tidy it too much. “Make sure you leave the mulch layer that covers your garden’s soil,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist in the Plant ...

A master gardener of 20 years says that this big mistake will deprive your plants of a truly healthy garden with soil that's ...

Fallen leaves make a fine mulch for garden beds and trees and shrubs, but they aren’t the only possibility. “Any kind of organic matter can make a good mulch,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Gardeners have been known to mulch with ground-up corncobs and nutshells, spent beer hops ...

The trees have begun their annual ritual of showering us with leaves of orange, yellow, crimson and brown. For many, this means hours raking and bagging leaves to be carted off or burned in ...

Winter gardening in the Carolinas is suddenly breaking the rules, and it’s making backyard conversations a lot more ...

Mulch is practical -- it holds moisture and controls weeds. It is also a design element that helps give your landscape a clean, unified look. What mulch should you use on your landscape beds? My first ...