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 ...

Sick of weeding or watering your garden all the time? Are you losing plants ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: I recently read that all organic landscape mulch is combustible and shouldn’t be used on landscape due to the fire risk. However, for years I’ve been told that using mulch is a good practice ...

Skinny tree trunk surrounded by mound of dark mulch in a yard next to a sidewalk. - Ozgurcoskun/Getty Images Many people avoid using the mower and line trimmer around trees to avoid damaging their ...

“The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” — Florence Bone. “Sweet October, fill with praise. Rich and glowing as thy days, every poet’s heartfelt lays.” — Caroline ...